Garden Party

Katherine Mansfield – a New Zealand writer and master of short prose inspired by Chekhov. A modernist and experimenter, she received acclaim from critics and fellow writers during her lifetime, but lived a short life and died in 1923 at the age of thirty-four.

Mansfield was part of a circle of significant figures such as D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Aldous Huxley. Together with S. S. Koteljansky, she worked on translating Russian literature.

The collection "Garden Party" consists of ten original stories, partly set in the author's homeland in New Zealand, partly – in England and the French Riviera. All of them explore love, death, and loneliness. Revelations of unexpressed emotions; stories about the contradictions of life, disappointments, and everyday joys.