The Garden Party and Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield · 1888–1923
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Fifteen stories, several set in the New Zealand of the author’s childhood: a family by the sea, a party next to a death, two elderly sisters freed and lost. Mansfield catches a mood in a few lines and leaves the important thing unsaid. She was dying of tuberculosis when the book appeared, and its lightness has an edge because of it.