* Katherine Mansfield - Collected Stories and Letters (29 books)
KATHERINE MANSFIELD (1888–1923) was a New Zealand-born English writer, essayist and journalist, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement who evolved a distinctive prose style with many overtones of poetry. Her delicate stories, focused upon psychological conflicts, have an obliqueness of narration and a subtlety of observation that reveal the influence of Anton Chekhov. She, in turn, had much influence on the development of the short story as a form of literature.
Mansfield wrote short stories and poetry which explored anxiety, sexuality and existentialism alongside a developing New Zealand identity. When she was 19, she left New Zealand and settled in England, where she became a friend of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell and others in the orbit of the Bloomsbury Group.
Her initial disillusion appears in the ill-humoured stories collected in IN A GERMAN PENSION (1911). Until 1914 she published stories in Rhythm and The Blue Review, edited by the critic and essayist John Middleton Murry, whom she married in 1918 after her divorce from George Bowden. The death of her soldier brother in 1915 shocked her into a recognition that she owed what she termed a sacred debt to him and to the remembered places of her native country. PRELUDE (1918) was a series of short stories beautifully evocative of her family memories of New Zealand. These, with others, were collected in BLISS (1920), which secured her reputation and is typical of her art.
In the next two years Mansfield did her best work, achieving the height of her powers in THE GARDEN PARTY (1922), which includes "At the Bay," "The Voyage," "The Stranger" (with New Zealand settings), and the classic "Daughters of the Late Colonel," a subtle account of genteel frustration.
Mansfield was a prolific writer in the final years of her life. Much of her work remained unpublished at her death, and Murry took on the task of editing and publishing it in two additional volumes of short stories (THE DOVE'S NEST in 1923, and SOMETHING CHILDISH in 1924); a volume of poems; a novel, THE ALOE (1930); and a collection of book reviews, NOVELS AND NOVELISTS (1930). From her papers, Murry also edited the JOURNAL (1927, rev. ed. 1954) and SCRAPBOOK (1939). Her COLLECTED LETTERS were edited by Vincent O'Sullivan and Margaret Scott and published in five volumes (1984–2008).
The following books are in ePub and/or PDF format as indicated:
== COMPLETE WORKS ==
* Complete Works [ed. Pynch] (2014) – ePub, recommended
* Complete Works (Delphi, 2012) – ePub
== FICTION ==
* The Aloe (Capuchin Classics, 2010) – ePub
* At the Bay (Melville House, 2016) – ePub
* Bliss (Penguin, 2011) – ePub
* Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (Penguin, 2007) – ePub
* The Garden Party and Other Stories (Ecco, 2016) – ePub
* The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin, 2007) – ePub
* In Bavaria (Random House NZ, 2013) – ePub
* Marriage & Families (Random House NZ, 2013) – ePub
* New Zealand Stories (Random House NZ, 2013) – ePub
* Selected Stories (Text Classics, 2012) – ePub
* Selected Stories [ed. Smith] (Oxford, 2002) – PDF
* Sex & Lies (Random House NZ, 2013) – ePub
* Short Stories (Vintage NZ, 2008) – ePub
* Something Childish But Very Natural (Penguin, 2007) – ePub
* Stories (Vintage, 1991) – ePub
* Strange Bliss: Essential Stories (Pushkin, 2021) – ePub
* Women Alone (Random House NZ, 2013) – ePub
== POETRY ==
* Poems of KM [ed. O'Sullivan] (Oxford NZ, 1988) – PDF
== NON-FICTION ==
* Critical Writings of KM [ed. Hanson] (Palgrave, 1987) – PDF
* Novels and Novelists [ed. Murry] (Beacon, 1959) – PDF
== LETTERS, JOURNAL, DIARIES ==
* Collected Letters: Vol. 1, 1903-1917 [ed. O'Sullivan & Scott] (Oxford, 1984) – PDF
* Collected Letters: Vol. 2, 1918-1919 [ed. O'Sullivan & Scott] (Oxford, 1987) – PDF
* Collected Letters: Vol. 3, 1919-1920 [ed. O'Sullivan & Scott] (Oxford, 1993) – PDF
* Collected Letters: Vol. 4, 1920-1921 [ed. O'Sullivan & Scott] (Oxford, 1996) – PDF
* Diaries of Katherine Mansfield [ed. Kimber & Davison] (Edinburgh, 2016) – PDF
* Journal of Katherine Mansfield, 1904-1922 [ed. Murry] (Constable, 1962) – PDF
* Letters Between KM and John M. Murray [ed. Hankin] (New Amsterdam, 1991) – ePub
* Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield [ed. Murry] (Knopf, 1940) – PDF
