The Garden Party (short story collection)

The Garden Party and Other Stories is a 1922 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield.

First edition (publ. Constable)

Stories

1. "At the Bay"
2. "The Garden Party"
3. "The Daughters of the Late Colonel"
4. "Mr and Mrs Dove"
5. "The Young Girl"
6. "Life of Ma Parker"
7. "Marriage à la Mode"
8. "The Voyage"
9. "Miss Brill"
10. "Her First Ball"
11. "The Singing Lesson"
12. "The Stranger"
13. "Bank Holiday"
14. "An Ideal Family"
15. "The Lady's Maid"

Themes

• Life
• Death
• Marriage
• Distorted Reality
• Regret/Disappointment
• Duty
• Gender

External links

• The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield available freely at Project Gutenberg
• The Garden Party and Other Stories at the British Library
• The Garden Party (EFL/ESL Graded Readers) - Oxford Graded Reader / Matatabi Graded Reader
• The Garden Party and Other Stories at the New Zealand Text Centre
• The Garden Party public domain audiobook at LibriVox