Full Description
These two volumes collect together 215 of Mansfield's stories and expand considerably upon the largest previous single collected edition of 85 stories. They include Mansfield's best-loved stories, stories uncollected, unpublished or left incomplete during her lifetime, the full text of The Aloe, from which Mansfield shaped her ground-breaking work Prelude, and her own manuscript versions of several stories later 'edited' by her husband, John Middleton Murry. The volumes are arranged in chronological order, so that readers can trace Mansfield's progress as a creative writer, month-by-month, from her first schoolgirl story in 1898 to her last completed story in July 1922.
Mansfield will be read differently, and more accurately, as a result of this edition. The annotations and their cross-referencing to her letters and notebooks deepen what we know of the context and genesis of her fiction. This edition is testament to Mansfield's importance among twentieth century English-language writers and to her rare and original handling of the short story form.
Key Features:
Brings together for the first time all of Mansfield's extant fictionRefocuses critical attention on one of the most influential exponents of modernist fictionThe essential Mansfield text for individual scholars working on Mansfield studies, as well as those with a more general interest in Mansfield the writerRedefines Mansfield as a writer for the next generationThe Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield, Volumes 1-4
Contents
Abbreviations and Textual Note; Fiction 1916-1922; 1916; That Woman; Last Words to Youth; The Laurels; 1917; The Lost Battle; Toots; Two Tuppenny Ones Please; Late at Night; The Black Cap; In Confidence; The Common Round; A Pic-Nic; Mr Reginald Peacock's Day; Prelude; Feuille d'Album; A Dill Pickle; Love-Lies-Bleeding; 1918; Je ne parle pas français; Sun and Moon; Bliss; The Boy with the Jackdaw; To the Last Moment; Carnation; Love in Autumn; 'Did M. wear a grey dressing gown'; 'A stupid, silly poem'; Keeping Up; 'Don't you think it would be marvellous'; 1919; A Suburban Fairy Tale; 'It was neither dark nor light in the cabin'; See Saw; Pictures; 'R's first husband was a pawnbroker'; 1920; Late Spring; This Flower; Psychology; The Man Without a Temperament; The Wrong House; Revelations; The Escape; A Dance At The - - - ; Bank Holiday; The Wind Blows; The Young Girl; The Singing Lesson; The Stranger; Miss Brill; Poison; The Lady's Maid; The Daughters of the Late Colonel; There is no Answer; You love me - still?; Tea on the Train; 1921; Life of Ma Parker; 'After a succession of idle, careless, or clumsy, or unwilling little boys'; Mr and Mrs Dove; Susannah; Such a Sweet Old Lady; Sixpence; An Ideal Family; Hat with a Feather; Her First Ball; Marriage à la Mode; Widowed; At the Bay; The Voyage; A Married Man's Story; Second Violin; All Serene!; By Moonlight; The Garden Party; The Doll's House; Six Years After; Weak Heart; Daphne; 'I suppose, doctor'; 'Carriages are not allowed'; 'It fell so softly, so gently'; 'On her way back to the garden'; 'What was there about the little house'; The Pessimist; The Sisters; 'Lucien's mother was a dressmaker'; Honesty; 1922; The Doves' Nest; A Cup of Tea; Taking the Veil; Mr and Mrs Williams; The Fly; Confidences; The New Baby; 'Have you seen my cosmias dear?'; A Man and His Dog; Honeymoon; It was the late afternoon; A Family Dance; 'Behind the hotel - à deux pas de l'hotel'; Father and the Girls; My Darling; The Lily; Our Hilda; 'One great advantage'; 'There are certain human beings'; A Bad Idea; The Canary; Appendix B: Attributed Stories; Bibliography; Index of first lines; Index of stories.
