|
Prelude
|
| List Price: | CDN$ 15.95 |
| Price: | CDN$ 11.64 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $39. Details |
Availability: Temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the item.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca
Product Description
One of Katherine Mansfield's most important works, Prelude established her reputation as a master of short fiction. It is accompanied here by its continuation pieces At the Bay and The Doll's House. A large, seemingly loving family, the Burnells lead an idyllic life, with the children free to play at will, and with enough adults on hand to lavish love upon them. Yet alongside this innocent evocation of childhood bliss, another aspect of the household is delicately and unmistakably laid bare as Mansfield exposes the true nature of the family. Pretensions and insecurities rise to the surface in a series of vivid, all too real impressions of domestic life. The result is an exquisite rendering of childhood, memory, and understanding. A key figure in the Modernist movement, Katherine Mansfield is most remarkable for having perfected the art of the short story.
Product Details
- Published on: 2005-06-01
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 112 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
A key figure in the Modernist movement, Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is remarkable for perfecting the form of the short story. Novelist and Scriptwriter William Boyd is the author of A Good Man in Africa and Armadillo, which was adapted for the BBC in 2001. In all, eight of his screenplays have been filmed, including The Trench, which he also directed, in 1999, and Scoop (1987).
