The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories

The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories

Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Binghamton, N. Y. Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York. Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y. This volume contains all the complete stories, and several fragments of stories, which she wrote at the same time as, or after, those published in The Garden Party and Other Stories. Her earlier work, belonging to the period between her first book, In a German Pension, and her second, Bliss and Other Stories, will be published in one or two separate volumes in a collected edition of her work. Thus the continuity of her writing will be preserved, and an opportunity given to those who care for such things to follow the development of a talent now generally recognised as among the rarest of her generation. The title of this volume, The Doves Nest and Other Stories, is the title which Katherine Mansfield intended to give it. Whether the stories which compose it are those which she would finally have included in it, I cannot say. Her[10] standard of self-criticism was continually changing, and changing always in the direction of a greater rigour. In writings which I thought perfect she, with her keener insight, discerned unworthy elements. Now that I am forced to depend upon my own sole judgment, it has seemed to me that there is not a scrap of her writingnot even the tiniest fragmentduring this final period which does not bear the visible impress of her exquisite individuality and her creative power. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 66871
Author: Mansfield, Katherine
Release Date: Dec 2, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date: 1923
Publisher Country: United States