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Bliss (short Story Collection)
''Bliss and Other Stories'' is a 1920 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield. Stories # "Prelude" (1918) # " Je ne parle pas français" (1917) (censored for collection; see article) # " Bliss" (1918) # " The Wind Blows" (1920) # " Psychology" (1920) # "Pictures" (1917) # "The Man Without a Temperament" (1920) # "Mr Reginald Peacock's Day" (1920) # " Sun and Moon" (1920) # " Feuille d'Album" (1917) # "A Dill Pickle" (1917) # "The Little Governess "The Little Governess" is a 1915 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in '' Signature'' on 18 October 1915 under the pen name of Matilda Berry, and later reprinted in '' Bliss and Other Stories''. The text is written in the ..." (1915) # "Revelations" (1920) # "The Escape" (1920) References ;Notes ;Bibliography * External links ''Bliss and other stories'' at the New Zealand Text Centreavailable at Project Gutenberg ''Bliss and Other Stories'' by Katherine Mansfieldavailable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1920. Events *February 2 – '' Beyond the Horizon'', Eugene O'Neill's second full-length play, opens with a Morosco Theatre matinée in New York City, partly as a producer's experiment and partly to quiet the actor Richard Bennett, who sought to play the lead. Reviewers hail the play and O'Neill gains fame. *February 27 – An inaugural meeting of the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club is arranged by Mary MacCarthy in London. *Spring – The poet Anton Podbevšek and others organize the Novo Mesto Spring (''Novomeška pomlad'') event, the beginning of Slovenian Modernism. *March 15 – '' The Blue Flame'', a four-act play by George V. Hobart and John Willard after Leta Vance Nicholson, opens at the Shubert Theatre (New York City) on Broadway before a year's U.S. tour. Though described by a critic as "one of the worst plays ever written," it is a commercial success, largely due to Theda Bara as the ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun And Moon (Mansfield)
"Sun and Moon" is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the '' Athenaeum'' on 1 October 1920, and later reprinted in '' Bliss and Other Stories''.Katherine Mansfield, ''Selected Stories'', Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes Plot summary The children, Sun and Moon, are hanging around the house while a party is being prepared. They play games, then are sent off to bed. The party wakes them up; their parents find them out of their beds and instead of scolding them, they let them go downstairs for a bite - but Sun starts sobbing because Moon has eaten the nut from the centerpiece (the moment of ruined perfection, a recurring theme in Mansfield's work), and they are sent off to bed again. Characters *Sun (a boy) *Moon (a girl) *Nurse *Annie *Mother *Father *the pianist *Minnie, the new cook. *Nellie, the housemaid. Major themes * The gap between children and adults Literary significance The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Stories By Katherine Mansfield
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1920 Short Story Collections
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The Little Governess
"The Little Governess" is a 1915 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in '' Signature'' on 18 October 1915 under the pen name of Matilda Berry, and later reprinted in '' Bliss and Other Stories''. The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative. Plot summary After receiving advice from the lady at the Governess Bureau, a young and naïve English governess (referred to throughout as "the little governess") is off on the train from France to Munich, from where she will go to a new house for work. The governess has never been abroad before, and is duly forewarned of the dangers by the lady at the Governess Bureau, who tells her to "mistrust people at first". She is harassed by a porter on the way to her train, and once aboard, by a group of rowdy French men. The porter, dissatisfied with the pay that he has received, tears away the 'Ladies Only' sign on the carriage that the governess sits. An old man, " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dill Pickle
"A Dill Pickle" is a 1917 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the ''New Age'' on 4 October 1917. A revised version later appeared in '' Bliss and Other Stories''. The characters and their relationship possibly were inspired by Mansfield's older sister Vera Margaret Beauchamp and her husband James Mackintosh Bell. Plot summary A man and a woman who used to be romantically involved meet by chance in a tea-house not having seen each other for about six years. We learn that the woman ended their earlier relationship in a letter she wrote to him, but we come to doubt that she expected the letter to do so. They sit together and reminisce about past events - for example, the day they spent at Kew Gardens together. Both initially seem to regret not being friends any longer. The man tells her about his many journeys abroad, insisting that he has accomplished alone the things they had said they would do together. He tells her about Russia and how different the soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feuille D'Album (short Story)
"Feuille d'Album" is a 1917 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the '' New Age'' on 20 September 1917, under the title of '' An Album Leaf''. A revised version later appeared in '' Bliss and Other Stories''.Katherine Mansfield, ''Selected Stories'', Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes Plot summary Ian French is a young artist who lives alone in Paris. He is very reserved and rarely talks to anyone. He is particularly shy around women and rejects their advances. One day he sees a girl his own age on the balcony of the building opposite his and becomes infatuated with her. He begins to fantasise about her and one day decides to follow her while she is out shopping. He sees her buying an egg in a shop, goes inside briefly after she leaves, and then follows her home. As she looks for her key, he tells her, "Excuse me, Mademoiselle, you dropped this." And he hands her an egg. Characters in ''Feuille d'Album'' *Ian French, a painter; likes to sit in caf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mr Reginald Peacock's Day
"Mr Reginald Peacock's Day" is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the '' New Age'' on 14 June 1917, and later reprinted in '' Bliss and Other Stories''. Plot summary Reginald is woken up by his wife for breakfast. He is irritated by his wife who is very polite with him. He has a bath, sings for a bit and fathoms he could be an opera singer. The couple then have a minor spat over the fact that she cooks for him, instead of having a servant doing it for them. After receiving a letter of admiration from Aenone Fell, he gives a lesson to Miss Brittle, then to the Countess Wilkowska, and to Miss Marian Morrow. He then goes to Lord Timbuck's party with his students for dinner. When he gets home he thinks his wife an ingrate for not celebrating his 'triumph', whilst it so happens that he did not even tell her he would be away for dinner. Characters *Reginald Peacock, a singing teacher. *His wife *Adrian, Reginald's son. *Aenone Fell, a student of Reginald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Stories
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. Definition The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. The short story is sometimes referred to as a genre. Determining what exactly defines a short story has been recurrently problematic. A classic definition of a short story i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Without A Temperament
"The Man Without a Temperament" is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in '' Arts and Letters'' in Spring 1920, and later reprinted in '' Bliss and Other Stories''. Plot summary Mrs Jinnie Salesby has tea with her husband, Robert. She receives a letter from Lottie, who is suffering from neuritis Neuritis () is inflammation of a nerve or the general inflammation of the peripheral nervous system. Inflammation, and frequently concomitant demyelination, cause impaired transmission of neural signals and leads to aberrant nerve function. Neurit .... In her letter, she explains it is snowing in London. Then The Honeymoon Couple come back from fishing. The Salesbys go for a turn; she stops and sits while he goes on for a longer walk. He comes upon the Countess and the General in a carriage; they spurn him. He then walks on, imagines he is going back home for dinner, with Dennis and Beaty as guests. Instead, he gets back to his wife and they return to the di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
