The Garden Party, and Other Stories (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield. The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. Written during the final stages of her illness, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" is filled with a sense of urgency and was the last Katherine Mansfield collection to be published during her lifetime. The fifteen stories presented, many of them set in his native New Zealand, vary in length and tone from the opening story, "At the Bay," a vivid Impressionist evocation of family life, to the short, sharp sketch "Mrs. Brill, "in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed when she hears two young lovers taunting her. Sensitive revelations of human behavior, these stories reveal Mansfield's supreme talent as an innovator who liberated history from its conventions and gave it new strength and prestige.