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The Doves' Nest
''The Doves' Nest and Other Stories'' is a 1923 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield, published by her husband John Middleton Murry after her death. Murry wrote in his introductory note that this volume contains all the complete stories, and several fragments of stories, which she wrote at the same time as, or after, those published in '' The Garden Party and Other Stories'' Stories #" The Doll's House" (1922) (set in New Zealand) # "Honeymoon" (1923) #" A Cup of Tea" (1922) #"Taking the Veil" (1923) #" The Fly" (1922) #" The Canary" (1923) #" A Married Man's Story" (1923) # "The Doves' Nest" # "Six Years After" (set in New Zealand) # "Daphne" # "Father and the Girls" # "All Serene" # "A Bad Idea" # "A Man and his Dog" # "Such a Sweet Old Lady" # "Honesty" # "Susannah" # "Second Violin" (set in London) # "Mr. and Mrs. Williams" # "Weak Heart" (set in New Zealand) # "Widowed" (set in London) External links ''The Doves' Nest and Other Stori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1923. For works published in the United States, this year is also significant because from January 1, 2019, these were the first in 20 years to enter the public domain. They were originally to do so in 1999, but the U.S. Congress extended the length of copyright by twenty years. Events *January **A copy of James Joyce's 1922 novel ''Ulysses'' posted to a London bookseller by the proprietor of Davy Byrne's pub in Dublin, which features in the book, is detained as obscene by the U.K. authorities. **T. E. Lawrence is forced to leave the British Royal Air Force, his alias as 352087 Aircraftman John Hume Ross having been exposed. He joins the Royal Tank Corps as 7875698 Private T. E. Shaw. *February 5 – Poet and super-tramp W. H. Davies marries Helen Payne, an ex-prostitute thirty years his junior, at East Grinstead in England. *March – The first issue of the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' appears i ... [...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] |
Katherine Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world, and have been published in 25 languages. Born and raised in a house on Tinakori Road in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon, Mansfield was the third child in the Beauchamp family. After being raised by her parents and her beloved grandmother, she began school in Karori with her sisters before attending Wellington Girls' College. The Beauchamp girls later switched to the elite Fitzherbert Terrace School, where Mansfield became friends with Maata Mahupuku, who became a muse for early work and with whom she is believed to have had a passionate relationship. Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry under a variation of her own name, Katherine Mansfield, which explored anxiety, sexuality and existentialism alongside a dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Middleton Murry
John Middleton Murry (6 August 1889 – 12 March 1957) was an English writer. He was a prolific author, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married in 1918 as her second husband, for his friendship with D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot, and for his friendship (and brief affair) with Frieda Lawrence. Following Mansfield's death, Murry edited her work. Early life John Middleton Murry was born in Peckham, London, the son of John Murry (1860/1-1947), a clerk in the Inland Revenue, and Emily (1869/70-1951), née Wheeler. John Murry, a self-made man from an "impoverished and illiterate" background, prioritized his son's education; Murry was educated at Christ's Hospital and Brasenose College, Oxford. There he met the writer Joyce Cary, a lifelong friend. He met Katherine Mansfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Garden Party (short Story Collection)
''The Garden Party and Other Stories'' is a 1922 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield. Stories # " At the Bay" # " The Garden Party" # "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" # "Mr and Mrs Dove" # "The Young Girl" # "Life of Ma Parker" # " Marriage à la Mode" # " The Voyage" # "Miss Brill" # "Her First Ball" # "The Singing Lesson" # " The Stranger" # "Bank Holiday" # "An Ideal Family" # "The Lady's Maid" Themes * Life * Death * Marriage * Distorted Reality * Regret/Disappointment * Duty * Gender External links ''The Garden Party and Other Stories'' by Katherine Mansfieldavailable freely at Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg (PG) is a Virtual volunteering, volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the ...''The Garden Party and Other Stories''at the British Library *''The Garden Party (EFL/ESL Grad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doll's House (short Story)
"The Doll's House" is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in ''The Nation and Atheneum ''The Nation and Athenaeum'', or simply ''The Nation'', was a United Kingdom political weekly newspaper with a Liberal/ Labour viewpoint. It was formed in 1921 from the merger of the '' Athenaeum'', a literary magazine published in London since 1 ...'' on 4 February 1922 and subsequently appeared in '' The Doves' Nest and Other Stories'' (1923). Mansfield used an alternative title in other editions, including "''At Karori''". Major themes ''Editor's note: The items below are not themes; they are (occasionally disputable) plot summary and basic analysis. They both share the same theme: social hierarchy.''. 1. The school is portrayed as a melting pot or mixing of all social classes, and the Kelveys as the lowest of the social classes. The other children are discouraged from talking to them; they are outcasts. The Burnells (Kezia, Isabel and Lottie) are one of the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Cup Of Tea
"A Cup of Tea" is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in ''The Story-Teller'' in May 1922. It later appeared in '' The Doves' Nest and Other Stories'' (1923). Her short stories first appeared in Melbourne in 1907, but literary fame came to her in London after the publication of a collection of short stories called ''In a German Pension''. The character Rosemary Fell is a "fictional reconstruction" of Mansfield's wealthy first cousin, once removed, the writer Elizabeth von Arnim. Plot summary Rosemary Fell, a wealthy young married to Istat and woman, goes to Curzon Street to shop at a florist's and in an antique shop (in which she admires, but does not buy, a beautifully painted small ceramic box). Before going to the car, Rosemary is approached by Miss Smith, a poor girl who asks for enough money to buy tea. Instead, Rosemary drives the girl to her plush house, determined to show her "that dreams do come true" and "that rich people did have hearts." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fly (Mansfield)
"The Fly" is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield wrote the story in February 1922 at the Victoria Palace Hotel in Montparnasse, Paris. It was first published in ''The Nation and Athenaeum'' on 18 March 1922 and in '' The Doves' Nest and Other Stories'' in 1923. The story relates to the death of a soldier in World War I. In October 1915, Mansfield's younger brother, Leslie Beauchamp, was killed during a grenade training drill while serving with the British Expeditionary Force in Ypres Salient, Belgium. He was 21. Like the soldier in the story, before enlisting Leslie had worked for his father's firm. Leslie and Mansfield's father Harold Beauchamp owned an importing company. New Zealand Government History site (text and video). Retrieved 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canary (short Story)
"The Canary" is a short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published posthumously in ''The Nation and Atheneum'' on 21 April 1923, and later appeared in '' The Doves' Nest and Other Stories'' (1923).Mansfield, Katherine; Smith, Angela (ed.) (2002) ''Selected Stories'', with an introduction and explanatory notes by Angela Smith, p. 396. Oxford: Oxford University Press Mansfield began writing the story at the Victoria Palace Hotel in Paris in 1922, where a woman who lived opposite the hotel kept canaries in a cage. She finished the story on 7 July 1922, when she and her husband John Middleton Murry were living at a hotel in Randogne (now part of Crans-Montana), Switzerland, from 4 June to 16 August 1922. It was the last short story she ever completed.Mansfield, Katherine (2001) ''The Montana Stories'', p. 327. London: Persephone Books (A collection of all Mansfield's work written from June 1921 until her death, including unfinished work.) Plot summary The story is told in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Married Man's Story
"A Married Man's Story" is an unfinished 1923 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in '' The Dial'' in January 1923, and was reprinted in the ''London Mercury'' in April 1923, and then in '' The Doves' Nest and Other Stories'' (1923). It was published posthumously and it is incomplete. Plot summary After supper the narrator is thinking of what is going on outside the house, then his wife asks him what he is thinking about and he says nothing; she tucks the baby in and is alone in the kitchen. Later, he is bored with the marriage but he cannot leave his wife because they are 'bound'. Then she comes into the living-room at 10.30pm as she does every night, and asks him to turn out the gas before going to bed. Yet on this particular night she also asks him if he is cold, which he thinks is absurd. He then expresses his desire to write simply, 'sotto voce'. He expounds how after they got married in Wellington Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Gutenburg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain. All files can be accessed for free under an open format layout, available on almost any computer. , Project Gutenberg had reached 50,000 items in its collection of free eBooks. The releases are available in plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and Plucker wherever possible. Most releases are in the English language, but many non-English works are also available. There are multiple affiliated projects that provide additional content, including region- and language-specific works. Project Gutenberg is closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders, an Internet-based community for proofreading sca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
