Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Masterful stories of longing, change and revelation

Good but aged condition.

Katherine Mansfield’s celebrated short stories illuminate the hidden tensions and fleeting discoveries of ordinary life. Moving from New Zealand childhoods to European drawing rooms, she writes with precision and sympathy about families, class, love, loneliness and the distance between appearance and feeling. Familiar pieces such as The Garden Party and Bliss sit alongside other finely observed works, each shaped by Mansfield’s modernist style and remarkable attention to mood. This selection offers a compelling introduction to one of the twentieth century’s most influential short-story writers.