See buying choices for this item to see if it's one of the millions that are eligible for Amazon Prime.

Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Selected Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside another edition of this book

Selected Stories (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)

by Katherine Mansfield (Author), Dan Davin (Editor, Introduction)
4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Available from these sellers.


4 used from £7.95

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Sunset Song

Sunset Song

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
4.0 out of 5 stars (22)  £5.39
Poetry of the Thirties (Penguin Modern Classics)

Poetry of the Thirties (Penguin Modern Classics)

by none
£6.99
A Twentieth Century Literature Reader: Texts and Debates (Twentieth-Century Literature: Texts and Debates)

A Twentieth Century Literature Reader: Texts and Debates (Twentieth-Century Literature: Texts and Debates)

by Suman Gupta
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £17.99
Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard: "Ivanov", The "Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters", and The "Cherry Orchard" (Oxford World's Classics)

Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard: "Ivanov", The "Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters", and The "Cherry Orchard" (Oxford World's Classics)

by Anton Chekhov
£4.19
Prufrock and Other Observations (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse)

Prufrock and Other Observations (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse)

by T.S. Eliot
3.7 out of 5 stars (3)  £3.16
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 386 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (Jun 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192835165
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192835161
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 503,563 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in these categories:

    #18 in  Books > Fiction > Short Stories > Classic Short Story Authors > Mansfield, Katherine
    #23 in  Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > M > Mansfield, Katherine

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

  • See Complete Table of Contents

Product Description

Product Description
This collection of the short stories of Katherine Mansfield includes: "The Fly"; "The Doll's House"; "At the Bay"; "The Garden-Party"; "Mr and Mrs Dove"; "Bliss"; "Psychology"; "Sun and Moon"; and others.
Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Search inside this book:

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
Check a corresponding box or enter your own tags in the field below
(1)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Selected Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
81% buy the item featured on this page:
Selected Stories (Oxford World's Classics) 4.6 out of 5 stars (5)
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (Wordsworth Classics)
11% buy
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (Wordsworth Classics) 4.8 out of 5 stars (4)
£1.99
To the Lighthouse (Wordsworth Classics)
3% buy
To the Lighthouse (Wordsworth Classics) 3.9 out of 5 stars (27)
£1.99
Sunset Song
3% buy
Sunset Song 4.0 out of 5 stars (22)
£5.39
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

5 Reviews
5 star:
 (3)
4 star:
 (2)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.6 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Rich, subtle and humanistic , 29 Oct 2007
By Prayers for rain (Midi Pyrénées) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Selected Stories (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
K Mansfield is an author that I really love and admire. I studied her writings at university, and rediscovered her "Selected Stories" recently with great pleasure and awe. Her style is fantastic ; her short stories focus on the characters' inner states and her depiction of human psychology is so accurate, rich and subtle. My favourites stories are Bliss, Prelude, At the Bay, the Garden Party, Mr and Mrs Dove,... The poignant "Life of Ma Parker" as well as the human cruelty depicted in "Ms Brill" will make your heart bleed. An author highly recommended.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Elegantly crafted stories which capture the imagination, 19 Sep 2001
By A Customer
With her abundant usage of simile and metaphor, her sensibility and her presentation of the senses, colour, shape and aesthetic and moral perception, the indescribable style of Katherine Mansfield is present within this collection of short stories. Taken from Bliss (1920), The Garden Party (1922), The Dove's Nest (1923) and Something Childish (1924), these stories are set in many places and at many times, being linked together by Mansfield's delight in beauty and the essence of life, and her slight disgust at the crude and the ugly. Mansfield's ability to create such acute pictures within the reader's mind, to veritably sweep the reader into the narrative with her descriptive language, can only be achieved through her masterful skill of crafting language. This collection is wonderful - if you have ever felt slightly disconnected from the world around you, that you have thoughts which others do not, then this collection is for you - relish the similies, melt into the metaphors and let Mansfield take you on her magic carpet ride.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars highly recommended, 4 Feb 2007
By A reader (brighton, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Selected Stories (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
Katherine Mansfield's quietly devastating prose and absolute commitment to craft remain two of the most potent twentieth century contributions to the difficult genre of the short story. This well-chosen selection demonstrates why.

Rich in colour, atmosphere and poetry, these tales most frequently turn on questions of loss and self-realization. Mansfield often takes as her subjects the resonant emptiness of lives framed by the tightest of parameters - a lonely woman's complete attachment and identification with her canary, a man's dependence on the memory of his dead son - and times where cherished certainties fall away in moments of revelation.

Perhaps the most famous of the latter type is 'Bliss' where the abrupt emptying of juvenile hostess Bertha Mason's boundless, yet ultimately restricting, exhiliration comes as an ambiguous opportunity for both delayed misery and growth. Elsewhere, tiny phrases in conversation unravel inescapable disparities in relationships; the complex emotional tensions of Mansfield's characters lie, as in Chekhov, primarily beneath the glittering surface of her clipped and confident style.

Intricately crafted, the nuanced dimensions of these stories haunt the reader, echoing in your mind long after you've put the book down. I find them compulsively re-readable.

This selection contains all of Mansfield's most famous tales including 'Bliss', 'The Canary', 'The Fly', 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', 'A Dill Pickle', 'A Cup of Tea' and a recently available, unedited version of 'Je Ne Parle Pas Francais' which restores the full depth of its narrator's deliciously depraved senses of self and sensuality. A must-read.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing and beautiful
I am new to Mansfield's work (shameful, I know) and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed her short stories. Read more
Published 20 months ago by H. Dennison

5.0 out of 5 stars Good
I enjoyed her style, her vocabulary and such plot lines as in the two strangers with an odd childish relationship in "Something childish but very natural" and one... Read more
Published on 20 Sep 2001 by esmeweatherwa50@hotmail.com

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

 Beta (What's this?)
This product's forum (0 discussions)
  Discussion Replies Latest Post
  No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
  [Cancel]


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Feedback

Fun for Everyone

Christmas Gifts
Achieve over 15,000 RPM with our great range of Powerballs.

›Shop the Powerball store

  

More From Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield's Selected...

Katherine Mansfield's Selected Stories

This edition includes thirty-five of Katherine Mansfield's short... Read more
£7.99

 

A Close Shave

Philips Nivea Coolskin HS8060 Moisturizing Rotary Shaving System
For all types of hair removal, stay smooth with Amazon.co.uk.

›Discover Shaving & Hair Removal

  

Treat Someone

Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificates--available in any amount from £5 to £500 With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is).

›Learn more about Gift Certificates

  
Ad

Where's My Stuff?

Delivery and Returns

Need Help?

Your Recent History

  (What's this?)
You have no recently viewed items or searches.

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.
Continue Shopping: Top Sellers

amazon.co.uk Amazon Home
International Sites:  United States  |  Germany  |  France  |  Japan  |  Canada  |  China
Business Programs: Sell on Amazon  |  Fulfilment by Amazon  |  Join Associates  |  Join Advantage
Customer Service  |  Help  |  View Basket  |  Your Account
About Amazon.co.uk  |  Careers at Amazon
Conditions of Use & Sale |  Privacy Notice  © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates