This collection allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the mature, deeply felt stories of her last years.

Considered one of the greatest short story writers of her generation, Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer from New Zealand. This collection includes thirty-five of her most popular stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: "The Tiredness of Rosabel," "At Lehmann's," "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding," "The Swing of the Pendulum," "The Woman at the Store," "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped," "Ole Underwood," "Millie," "Bains Turcs'," "The Little Governess," "An Indiscreet Journey," "The Wind Blows," "Prelude," "A Dill Pickle," "Je Ne Parle Pas Francais," "Bliss," "Psychology," "Pictures," "The Man Without a Temperament," "Revelations," "The Escape," "The Young Girl," "The Stranger," "Miss Brill," "Poison," "The Daughters of the Late Colonel," "Life of Ma Parker," "Her First Ball," "Marriage y la Mode," "At the Bay," "The Voyage," "The Garden Party," "The Doll's House," "The Fly," and "The Canary."

Bliss and Other Stories is a 1920 collection of short stories by the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield.

Contains all the short stories written during the last year of Katherine Mansfield's life at Montana, with a new and lengthy publisher's note.

The narration delves on the living and values of a large family in New Zealand. With trivial details of characters such as personality, gestures and attitudes, Mansfield has managed to delve into the psychology of characters and produce individuals that instantly capture attention. A must-read....

Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Her characters are passionate men and women swaddled in English reserve -- and sometimes briefly breaking through. And her genius is to pinpoint those unacknowledged and almost imperceptible moments in which those people's relationships -- with one another and themselves -- change forever. This collection includes such masterpieces as "Prelude," "At the Bay" "Bliss," "The Man Without a Temperament" and "The Garden Party" and has a new introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888–1923) was a prominent modernist short story writer who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the UK, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Her short stories show the complexities of a character's interior life in all its various shades. Bliss, and Other Stories Bliss Prelude Je ne Parle pas Français The Wind Blows Psychology Pictures The Man without a Temperament Mr. Reginald Peacock's Day Sun and Moon Feuille d'Album . . . The Garden Party, and Other Stories The Garden Party At The Bay The Daughters of the Late Colonel Mr. and Mrs. Dove The Young Girl Life of Ma Parker Marriage A La Mode The Voyage Miss Brill Her First Ball The Singing Lesson . . . The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories The Doves' Nest The Doll's House Honeymoon A Cup of Tea Taking the Veil The Fly The Canary Something Childish, and Other Stories Something Childish but very Natural The Tiredness of Rosabel How Pearl Button was Kidnapped The Journey to Bruges A Truthful Adventure New Dresses The Woman at the Store Ole Underwood The Little Girl Millie Pension Séguin Violet Bains Turcs An Indiscreet Journey . . . In a German Pension, and Other Stories Germans at Meat The Baron The Sister of the Baroness Frau Fischer Frau Brechenmacher Attends A Wedding The Modern Soul At Lehmann's . . . The Aloe Last Moments Before A Journey With The Storeman The Day After The Aloe Unfinished Stories A Married Man's Story Six Years After Daphne Father and the Girls All Serene! A Bad Idea A Man and His Dog Such a Sweet Old Lady Honesty Susannah Second Violin Mr. and Mrs. Williams Weak Heart Widowed

The modernist period saw a revolution in fictional practice, most famously in the work of novelists such as Joyce and Woolf. Dominic Head shows that the short story, with its particular stress on literary artifice, was a central site for modernist innovation. Working against a conventional approach and towards a more rigourous and sophisticated theory of the genre, using a framework drawn from Althusser and Bakhtin, he examines the short story's range of formal effects, such as the disunifying function of ellipsis and ambiguity. Separate chapters on Joyce, Woolf and Katherine Mansfield highlight their strategies of formal dissonance, involving a conflict of voices within the narrative. Finally, Dominic Head's challenging conclusion takes the implications of his study into the age of postmodernism.