THE ATHENAEUMIn a German PensionKatherine Mansfield
Modern
In a German Pension
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textMansfield’s first book, from 1911: sharp, satirical sketches of the guests at a Bavarian spa where she stayed in 1909, eating, bathing and lecturing one another. She was in her early twenties. She later refused to let it be reprinted, thinking it immature, which is a good reason to read it.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 2 hr 5 min
- Where to find it
- The New Zealand Room, at the Antipodes
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1472. In the public domain in the United States.