Katherine Mansfield

Eighty-eight modernist short stories from the New Zeland author, Kathleen Mansfield Murry, published under her pen name. She was recognized as innovative, accessible, and psychologically acute, oen of the pioneers of the avant-garde in the creation of the short story. Her language was clear and precise; her emotion and reaction to experience carefully distilled and resonant. Her use of image and symbol were sharp, suggestive, and new without seeming...

Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. Graceful, delicate and burning with emotion, Mansfield's stories were integral in shaping the Modernist movement and redefined a genre. This collection contains some of Mansfield's most celebrated stories, including 'Bliss', 'The Garden Party' and 'The Daughters...

In muchas oportunidades, Julio Cortázar manifestó su admiración por ciertos cuentos que le resultaban inolvidables. Esas declaraciones han inspirado la presente antología, que reúne un variado grupo de magníficos relatos: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Jorge Luis Borges), William Wilson (Edgar Allan Poe), Un recuerdo navideño (Truman Capote), El puente sobre el río del Búho (Ambrose Bierce), La lección del maestro (Henry James), La muerte...

CSA Word Productions presents twenty classic short stories read by a cast of entertaining contemporary actors and written by such legendary authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.