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Mansfield, Katherine: Alles, was ich schreibe - alles, was ich bin. Texte einer Unbeugsamen. (€ 22,00)
Marix Verlag,
ISBN/EAN: 9783737412018 (Language: deutsch)
She is regarded as the innovator of the short story and was the only writer whose style was the envy of Virginia Woolf. She uncompromisingly insists on truthfulness in her writing, defying conventions in order to fulfil her own demands. In addition to precision and musicality, Katherine Mansfield brings a new tone to literature, new perspectives - the people in her stories are more important to her than the plot - a humour that is underestimated by many and sensuality in abundance. Her psychologically motivated texts, which are often autobiographical in nature, depict everyday events and seemingly trivial matters, but always focus on a decisive moment of realisation for her characters. Ingrid Mylo has made a selection from her oeuvre of 88 short stories, scattered poems, diaries, letters and reviews, linking the fascinating aspects of Katherine Mansfield´s personality with her work in a special way. The New Zealand-British writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), who died far too young, is today considered a master of the short story on a par with James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anton Chekhov. Her short bohemian life was characterised by travel, illness, love affairs with men and women and a very illustrious circle of acquaintances around Virginia Woolf, Bertrand Russell and D. H. Lawrence. She saw herself second as a woman, first as a writer.

Mansfield, Katherine: Ich will die Dinge auf die Spitze treiben! Erzählungen. Laufzeit ca. 1 Stunde 51 Minuten. (€ 6,95)
Random House Audio,
ISBN/EAN: 9783837116328 (Language: deutsch)
It suits me, I love her stories and her tone. Elke Heidenreich Why can´t we meet in dreams and answer all our questions? Katherine Mansfield wrote over 80 stories in her short, eventful life. A small, fine selection is now presented by Elke Heidenreich on this audiobook. The New Zealand-British author is a master at depicting atmospheres. Her style is simple and sharp. The great New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield has gone down in world literature as a master of the short story. In her stories, she describes small human weaknesses with a twinkle in her eye and looks behind the scenes of social conventions. This audiobook brings together a small selection of her stories: Happiness Mr Reginald Peacock´s big day A cup of tea Marriage á la mode Germans at the table

Mansfield, Katherine: Das Gartenfest und andere Erzählungen. (€ 12,00)
Insel Verlag GmbH,
ISBN/EAN: 9783458339052 (Language: deutsch)

Mansfield, Katherine: In einer deutschen Pension (€ 19,80)
Hofenberg,
ISBN/EAN: 9783743743939 (Language: deutsch)
Katherine Mansfield: In a German boarding house On 9 June 1909, a young woman moves into a room at the Hotel Kreuzer in Wörishofen - the name Käthe Beauchamp-Bowden is only used from 1920 onwards - under the name Käthe Beauchamp-Bowden . At the age of 20, she was not of legal age according to the law at the time. The self-confident New Zealander listed her profession as writer , even though not a single line of her work had been published up to this point. It cannot be said that Käthe´s life is running smoothly. Separated from her great love Maata Mahupuku, a Maori princess whom she met and fell in love with at school in Wellington, she becomes pregnant in London by the son of her cello teacher. She marries somewhat hastily, but not the father of the child, but a singing teacher, from whom she separates on the wedding night. Her mother then travels from New Zealand, hides the five-month pregnant minor in the darkest Bavaria and disinherits the wayward daughter. One month later, Käthe suffers a miscarriage. When she returns to England at the end of December 1909 after a stay of just under six months, she has a small collection of stories in her luggage that the literary world will soon recognise as trend-setting and genre-defining. Her short humour pieces mercilessly expose the real issues, throwing precise spotlights on violence in marriage and free love, on provincialism and self-indulgence. From February 1910, they appeared in the influential magazine New Age , alongside texts by Bernhard Shaw, H.G. Wells and G.K. Chesterton. The first book edition followed in 1911 under the title In a German Pension , which established the worldwide fame of the unconventional young woman who would henceforth appear under the name Katherine Mansfield. In a German Pension , first printed in 1911. Table of contents: Introduction. Germans at the meat. The Baron. The Baroness´s sister. Mrs Fischer. Mrs Brechenmacher attends a wedding party. The modern soul. At Lehmann´s. The air bath. A birthday. The child who was tired. The progressive lady. The swinging of the pendulum. An explosion. New edition. Edited by Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2022. Cover design by Thomas Schultz-Overhage using the image: Heiner Hawel, Collage Katherine Mansfield, 2022. Typeset from the Minion Pro, 11 pt. Henricus - Edition Deutsche Klassik GmbH

Mansfield, Katherine: Glück und andere Erzählungen. (€ 8,99)
Insel Verlag GmbH,
ISBN/EAN: 9783458358497 (Language: deutsch)
What can you do when you are thirty, turn into your own street and are suddenly overwhelmed by a feeling of happiness - pure happiness! - as if you had suddenly swallowed a shining piece of that late afternoon sun, and now your chest was burning, and tiny showers of sparks shot through your whole body, into every finger and toe? Happiness is the best-known story by the New Zealand author, who has gone down in world literature as a master of the short story. This volume brings together the best and most popular stories.

Mansfield, Katherine: Fliegen, tanzen, wirbeln, beben (€ 22,00)
Manesse Verlag,
ISBN/EAN: 9783717524823 (Language: deutsch)
One cannot escape the splendour of life. Katherine Mansfield Good days, bad days, moments of heavenly bliss or moments of deep consternation - the linguistic artist Katherine Mansfield turns everything into pure poetry. Her diary provides an insight into a life that, for all its brevity, is rich in emotions and self-doubt, artistic talents, love adventures, dramas and strokes of fate. The selection ranges from the first samples of talent by twelve-year-old New Zealander Kathleen Beauchamp to the brilliant diary prose of a mature writer. Presented here in a new translation, the texts fascinate with their depth of thought, intimacy, richness of feeling and the magic of poetic observation of the world. With an afterword by Dörte Hansen!

Mansfield, Katherine: In einer deutschen Pension. Lesung mit Nina Hoss (1 mp3-CD). Laufzeit ca. 1 Stunde 14 Minuten. (€ 15,00)
Der Audio Verlag,
ISBN/EAN: 9783742429667 (Language: deutsch)
At the age of twenty, Katherine Mansfield leaves her home in New Zealand to become a writer in London. But first she ends up pregnant in a boarding house in a Bavarian spa town. There, she is able to fulfil her literary talent for observation, especially when she meets people who shed the tight corset of social constraints during their cure. The result is razor-sharp and very amusing stories. They use seemingly banalities to illustrate deeply rooted patterns of behaviour, prejudices and clichés in the early 20th century. Nina Hoss lends her voice to the pioneer of the modern short story. Reading with Nina Hoss

Mansfield, Katherine: The Letters Of Katherine Mansfield Volume II (€ 24,00)
HASSELL STREET PR,
ISBN/EAN: 9781013654206 (Language: englisch)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Mansfield, Katherine: Letters Between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murray (€ 22,50)
New Amsterdam Books,
ISBN/EAN: 9780941533768 (Language: englisch)
The New Zealand-born writer Mansfield (1888-1923) and her husband, Murry, the English editor and literary critic, exchanged hundreds of passionate, probing letters during their tempestuous 11-year relationship. Their correspondence reveals Mansfield´s fiercely independent spirit, as well as her intense need for undertanding from Murry from the time she met him at the home of a friend in London in 1912 until a few days before her death from tuberculosis in 1923.

Mansfield, Katherine: Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Complete Edition (€ 28,00)
UNIV OF MINNESOTA PR,
ISBN/EAN: 9780816642366 (Language: englisch)
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) published three collections of short stories -- In a German Pension, Bliss, and The Garden Party -- during her tragically short life, and was acclaimed as one of modernism´s most daring and original writers. After her death from tuberculosis in France, Mansfield´s private writings and letters were edited by her husband, John Middleton Murry, and published in four volumes between 1927 and 1954. Murry, however, took liberties in recasting his wife´s journals and notes. He excluded most of the vast mass of material and revised much of what he included, resulting in a distorted image of Mansfield as a passive, ethereal spirit. More than four decades later, the real Mansfield finally emerges in The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, the first unexpurgated edition of her private writings. Fully and accurately transcribed by editor Margaret Scott, these infrequent diary entries, drafts of letters, introspective notes jotted on scraps of paper, unfinished stories, half-plotted novels, poems, recipes, and shopping lists offer a complete and compelling portrait of a complex woman who was ambitious and at times ruthless, neurotic and sexually voracious, witty and acerbic, fascinated with the minutiae of daily life and obsessed with death.

Mansfield, Katherine: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated) (€ 1,93)
Series Three,
ISBN/EAN: 9781909496033 (Language: englisch)
For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents the complete works of the Modernist master short story writer Katherine Mansfield, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (6MB Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Mansfield´s life and works * Concise introductions to the short story collections and other works * The complete short stories * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Mansfields beautiful poetry * Includes Mansfield´s non-fiction works, including her journal - spend hours exploring the authors personal thoughts * Features the first biography on Mansfield, written by her husband - discover the authors literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

Mansfield, Katherine: The Garden Party (€ 10,00)
Penguin Books Ltd (UK),
ISBN/EAN: 9780241341643 (Language: englisch)
Born in New Zealand in 1888, Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp was primarily a writer of short stories. She published Prelude and The Garden Party and Other Stories before her premature death from TB in 1923. Something Childish and her journal and letters were published posthumously.

Mansfield, Katherine: The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (€ 11,99)
Penguin,
ISBN/EAN: 9780141904856 (Language: englisch)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield´s clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes Bliss, The Garden Party and In a German Pension, and fifteen tantalizing fragments of unfinished stories published after her tragic death, including ´Honesty´, an intriguing tale of two bachelors, and ´The Doves´ Nest´, an exquisite story of a widowed mother and her daughter in the Riviera who receive a mysterious gentleman caller. Graceful, delicate and quietly devastating, they observe apparently trivial incidents to create sensitive, often painful revelations of her characters´ inner lives.

Mansfield, Katherine: The Collected Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield (€ 8,50)
WORDSWORTH ED,
ISBN/EAN: 9781840222654 (Language: englisch)
This collection allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield´s work from the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the mature, deeply felt stories of her last years.