Katherine Mansfield Prelude

Autobiografisch getinte novelle over het leven van een door vrouwen gedomineerd gezin.

Fictie

Nederlands | 98 pagina's | Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam | 1999

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Katherine Mansfield In een Duits pension

Verhalen over markante bewoners van een Duits pension in de jaren '20.

Fictie

Nederlands | 135 pagina's | Goossens, Tricht | 1988

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Katherine Mansfield In a German Pension

Recovering from a miscarriage and a bad marriage, author Katherine Mansfield, barely 21, wrote these excellent short stories around the time she was staying in a spa town in Germany. With wry humour, she depicts a German upper middle class defined by their rude habits, but she also touches upon the hard life of servants and the oppression of women. The latter distinguishes her writing from that of Jane Austen, but the way in which Mansfield mocks the stiff-upper-lipped ladies and Barons of these...

Engels | 3 uur 35 minuten (163 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Katherine Mansfield Prelude

"There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother‘s lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance." The seemingly perfect Burnell family is moving from one house to another, and on the surface, everything appears idyllic. But as the story develops, the tension grows, threating to explode and expose their true nature. `Prelude‘ (1922) is evidence of Katherine...

Engels | 1 uur 43 minuten (78 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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