The Garden Party and Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield
Oxford Bookworms LibraryLevel 5
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Rosalie Kerr.
Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe… or if you are a child from the wrong social class… or a singer without work and the rent to be paid.
Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair.
Katherine Mansfield
The Garden Party and Other Stories
THE GARDEN PARTY and Other Stories
Short stories can be like photographs, catching people at some moment in their lives and trapping the memory for ever. There they are, smiling or frowning, looking sad, happy, serious, surprised … And behind those smiles and those frowns lie all the experiences of life, the fears and delights, the hopes and the dreams.
These sensitive and delicate stories give us pictures of ordinary people, and of the small, unimportant events that shape their lives. There is a garden party and a death, a desperate search for work, a journey alone across Europe by train, a meeting with a woman who has a dangerous secret. There are children being cruel, the feelings of a young girl at her first dance, the thoughts of a lady’s maid, and of a woman on a lonely farm in New Zealand.
We begin in an artist’s studio in Paris, with a young man who is a mystery to the women around him …
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Word count (main text): 22,665 words
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He really was an impossible person. Too shy, and he had nothing at all to say. When he came to your studio, he just sat there, silent. When he finally went, blushing red all over his face, you wanted to scream and throw something at him.
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