The Garden Party, and Other Stories

by Katherine Mansfield

THE GARDEN PARTY

AND OTHER STORIES

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

BLISS

AND OTHER STORIES

“Miss Mansfield’s stories are like life reflected in a round mirror. Everything is exquisitely bright, exquisitely distinct and just a little queer.”—The Nation.

“BLISS is the sort of book that spoils one for everything else . . . it is impossible to appraise really good work; all one can do is to recognise it when one sees it to say simply ‘this is a fine book.’”—Pall Mall.

“They arrest by their competence, their realism, their irony and wit; they are an expression, symbolical almost, of her times. . . . Written with such sureness and skill. . . . Beauty of a high order.”—J. C. Squire in the Observer.

“This book places Miss Mansfield as the best of our contemporary writers of Fiction."—Cambridge Review.

“Miss Mansfield has the genius that can make a short story out of nothing. . . . The same admirably restrained touch, the same understanding will be found in every one of the stories.”—Evening Standard.

THE

GARDEN PARTY

AND OTHER STORIES

BY KATHERINE
MANSFIELD

Montaigne dit que les hommes vont béant aux choses futures; j’ai la manie de béer aux choses passées.

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LONDON⁠BOMBAY⁠SYDNEY

CONSTABLE & COMPANY LIMITED

TO

JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY

First Published, 1922

CONTENTS

	PAGE
At the Bay	7
The Garden-Party	68
The Daughters of the Late Colonel⁠	94
Mr. and Mrs. Dove	128
The Young Girl	143
Life of Ma Parker	154
Marriage à la Mode	166
The Voyage	184
Miss Brill	199
Her First Ball	208
The Singing Lesson	220
The Stranger	230
Bank Holiday	251
An Ideal Family	257
The Lady’s Maid	268