THE ATHENAEUMBliss, and Other StoriesKatherine Mansfield
Modern
Bliss, and Other Stories
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textMansfield’s collection of 1920, with “Prelude”, the long story of the Burnell family’s move to a house in the country outside Wellington, drawn from her own childhood. The title story, of a young wife on the evening of a dinner party, ends on one of the quietest and most devastating discoveries in fiction. Mansfield was born in Wellington in 1888 and left New Zealand for good at nineteen.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 25 min
- Where to find it
- The New Zealand Room, at the Antipodes
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #44385. In the public domain in the United States.