{"product_id":"9780748642748","title":"The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1898-1915 by Gerri Kimber","description":"`\"We owe to her the prosperity of the `free' story,\" Elizabeth Bowen said of Katherine Mansfield: \"she untrammelled it from conventions.\" Here, at last, is the evidence in full: the edition Mansfield deserves.'Professor David Trotter, University of Cambridge'This much needed and very welcome work does two important things: It gives us all of Mansfield's fiction, with useful notes; and it removes many of John Middleton Murry's intrusions into the stories he edited after Mansfield's death. We all owe the editors, Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'Sullivan, a debt of gratitude for this excellent edition of the work of a major modernist writer.'Professor Robert Scholes, Brown UniversityThe Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield: Volume 1 Fiction 1898-1915Edited by Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'SullivanThe first complete edition of Katherine Mansfield's fictionThese two volumes collect together 219 of Mansfield's stories, including 4 newly discovered, previously unpublished stories. Together the volumes expand considerably upon the largest previous single collected edition of 85 stories. Gathered here are Mansfield's best-loved stories, stories uncollected, unpublished or left incomplete during her lifetime, the full text of The Aloe, from which Mansfield shaped her ground-breaking work Prelude, and her own manuscript versions of several stories later `edited' by her husband, John Middleton Murry. The volumes are arranged in chronological order, so that readers can trace Mansfield's progress as a creative writer, month-by-month, from her first schoolgirl story in 1898 to her last completed story in July 1922. Mansfield will be read differently, and more accurately, as a result of this edition. The annotations and their cross-referencing to her letters and notebooks deepen what we know of the context and genesis of her fiction. This edition is testament to Mansfield's importance among twentieth century English-language writers and to her rare and original handling of the short story form.   The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield in 4 volumes\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296871559541,"sku":"9780748642748","price":105.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780748642748.jpg?v=1762775382","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780748642748","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}