Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield celebrates the exceptional influence Katherine Mansfield had on the modernist short story. Mansfield (1888-1923) was a pivotal figure whose work profoundly impacted writers such as Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence.

This collection presents, for the first time, draft manuscripts of some of her most important stories, offering scholars and students alike vivid new insight into Mansfield’s creative process.

With manuscripts for each text presented in facsimile and transcript, detailed notes throughout compare early drafts with later revisions and the final published work. In the final section of the book, leading scholars provide vivid new critical readings that explore the manuscript history of these stories.

The stories included in this collection are:
‘Je ne parle pas français’;
‘Sun and Moon’;
‘Revelations’;
‘The Stranger’;
‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’;
‘Mr and Mrs Dove’;
‘Marriage à la Mode’;
‘The Voyage’;
‘Six Years After’;
‘The Fly’.