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“That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?”

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KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...

The Katherine Mansfield Premium Collection is a comprehensive gathering of the author's short stories and poetry. It encompasses a wide array of her works, including the celebrated 'Bliss', 'The Garden Party', and 'The Dove’s Nest'. The collection delves into the complexities of human emotions and societal norms through Mansfield's unique narrative voice. It also includes a selection of her poems, such as 'Poems at the Villa Pauline' and 'Child Verses', offering a deeper understanding of her artistic expression. This collection is a must-read for fans of Katherine Mansfield and for those interested in the genre of short fiction and poetry. more

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Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand-born British writer renowned for her short stories. Her work is celebrated for its concise, direct style and profound insight into the details of everyday life. Although her writing career was brief, her influence on literature has been profound. more

“What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.”

Littles Light Earth Together Night Fall Sound Rain Window Shining Rounds Ease Relief Joyful Tenderness Rainy Brooding Looking Down Rain At Night

Author:Katherine Mansfield

“if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't; they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Doe Two Earth Mystery Bounds

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“there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.”

Knows Mean Doe Different Hard Seems Poverty Sadness Sorrow Illness Breathing Deep Down

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“September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.”

Feels Different Earth Causes Air Produce Strange Months Resilience Extras Chemicals September Mushrooms Sparkle

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“It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay.”

Feels Stars Strange Gay Solemn

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Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)