Katherine Mansfield Audio Books

A collection of short stories on a variety of subjects, by one of New Zealand's best-known writers.

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories-some classic, others impending-selected and introduced by David Sedaris.

Katherine Mansfield was prominent Modernist writer of short fiction. This a ninety minute story from her collection of The Garden Party.

The first collected volume of short stories of the New Zealand modernist. Inspired by her own travels, Mansfield begins to refine her craft with a series of tales which depict German life at the brink of the first world war.

Although Katherine Mansfield was born in New Zealand in 1888, she spent much of her short life in England and on the Continent....

The fifteen stories collected here demonstrate the genius of Katherine Mansfield, who was compared to Chekhov.

This collection includes five stories by influential women writers from the close of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century.

One of Katherine Mansfields finest short stories, Bliss, introduces us to Bertha, who experiences a sense of rapture as she reflects on her life. On her walk home one day, she is overwhelmed by a sense of bliss and contentment.

In the realm of the short story, Katherine Mansfield established a highly original style. Undramatic, poetic and lyrical, her writing is exquisitely subtle in its treatment of human behaviour....

This recording contains four of Katherine Mansfield's best stories....