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“How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?”

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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

“For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.”

States Realizing Half Missing Angry Naked Uncomfortable Clothings Jackets

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Source: Complete Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs: 70+ Adventure Classics & Science Fiction Novels (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Chronicles, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Moon Trilogy, The Venus Series, Westerns, Lost World Novels, Fantasy Classics, Historical Novels and more

“By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.”

Sun Clothes Skins Naked Brown Hats Clothings Unnecessary Leather Harness

Book:Tracks

Source: Tracks

“The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and even when it does the Utopia never seems to last very long.”

World Long Doe Seems Lasts Walking Offers Dresses Weather Combination Privacy Fascinating Clothings Utopia

Author:Colin Fletcher

“Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness. I felt a quite unexpected freedom from restraint. And after a while I found that I had moved on to a new kind of simplicity. A simplicity that had a fitting, Adam-like, in-the-beginning earliness about it.”