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Author by : Katherine Mansfield
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1922
Publisher by :

ISBN : UCAL:$B242636

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Author by : Grace Dane Mazur
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2018-07-10
Publisher by : Random House

ISBN : 9780399179730

A rehearsal dinner brings together two disparate families in this sparkling, witty novel “This vital novel offers delicious echoes of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, and a touch of A Midsummer Night’s Dream—but its magic is unique. The Garden Party is beautiful and full of life.”—Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl and The Woman Upstairs The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals—academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal–reading lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis. The two families are reserved with and wary of each other, but tonight, the evening before the wedding that is supposed to unite them in marriage, they will attempt to set aside their differences over dinner in the garden. As Celia Cohen, the eminent literary critic, sets the table, her husband, Pindar, would much rather be translating ancient recipes for his Babylonian cookbook than hosting this rehearsal dinner. Meanwhile, their son, Adam, the poet (and nervous groom), wonders if there is still time to simply elope. One of Adam’s sisters, Naomi, a passionate but fragile social activist, refuses to leave her room, while Sara, scorpion biologist turned folklore writer, sits up on the roof mourning an imminent breakup. And Pindar’s elderly mother, Leah, witnesses everything, weaving old memories into the present. The lawyers are early: patriarch Stephen Barlow and his bespangled wife, Philippa, who specializes in estates, along with Philippa’s father, Nathan, hobbled by age and Lyme disease. Then come the Barlow sons William (war crimes), Cameron (intellectual property), and Barnes (the prosecutor), each with desperate wife and precocious offspring. How could their younger siblings—Eliza, the bride, an aspiring veterinarian, and her twin brother, Harry, recently expelled from divinity school—have issued from such a family? Up and down the dinner table, with its twenty-four (or is it twenty-five?) guests, unions are forming and dissolving while Pindar is trying to figure out whether time is really shaped like baklava, and off in the surrounding forest with its ancient pond different sorts of mischief will lead to a complicated series of fiascoes and miracles before the party is over. Set over the course of a single day and night, Grace Dane Mazur’s brilliantly observed novel weaves an irresistible portrayal of miscommunication, secrets, and the power of love. “Lyrical and charming, this comedy of errors is a delightful summer read.”—People...

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Author by : Katherine Mansfield
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2007-03-29
Publisher by : Penguin UK

ISBN : 9780141937182

Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short story Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'...

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Author by : Katherine Mansfield
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1922
Publisher by : New York : Modern Library, [c1922, 1931 printing]

ISBN : NYPL:33433043644818

A frivolous, wealthy family's garden party continues uninterrupted by the death of a working-class neighbor....

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Author by : Katherine Mansfield
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2016-05-29
Publisher by : Vintage

ISBN : 9781101973110

From one of the most influential and talented masters of the short story—and the writer of whom Virginia Woolf wrote, “I was jealous of her writing—the only writing I have ever been jealous of”—comes an exquisite paragon of the form. A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection An afternoon at the Sheridan’s garden party will be perfect. Darling Laura is doing a marvelous job negotiating with the band, workmen, cook, and florist who appears with an unexpected delivery, all without her mother’s help. But, distressing news reaches the house just before lunch. A young man from one of the sordid little cottages down the lane was killed in an accident, and suddenly Laura can’t imagine proceeding with the party. An ebook short....

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Author by : Katherine Mansfield
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1987
Publisher by : Hutchinson

ISBN : STANFORD:36105210635921

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Author by : Katherine Mansfield
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2018-11-13
Publisher by : Alma Classics

ISBN : 1847497292

When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one of their working-class neighbours, this burgeoning sense of class consciousness is heightened by a realization of her own mortality. Published in 1922, at the height of literary modernism, 'The Garden Party' is now considered one of the key texts of that movement. This volume, which also includes a wide selection of Katherine Mansfield's other short stories, is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to discover one of the early twentieth century's finest writers....

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Author by : Václav Havel
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1993
Publisher by : Grove Press

ISBN : 080213307X

Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated imprisonments that made Havel's name into a rallying cry and propelled him to the leadership of his country. They include The Garden Party, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Mistake, the Vanek trilogy of Audience, Unveiling, and Protest, and the first fully corrected English version of The Memorandum--the play that won Havel the Obie for Best Foreign Play in 1968....

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Author by : James Trickington
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2017-12-08
Publisher by : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN : 1981525351

A must-read for all those who enjoy entertaining guests and have a taste for the finer things in life....

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Author by : Katherine Mansfield
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2007
Publisher by :

ISBN : 3852720117

In the 'Garden party', Laura is excited with the party's annual in her garden until she discovers that a man died near the home of the family. In 'Sixpence', when Dicky, an active and exuberant boy, accidentally breaks a dish, will be your mother comprehensible or he will suffer any punishment?...