A review by petrauusimaa
Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield

4.0

Katherine Mansfield is definitely my favourite writer of short stories. This collection is definitely a good taste of her brilliance and I enjoyed dipping in and out of it for a month or so. There is something so striking about Mansfield's way of writing. She is ruthless, quick, brilliant. No wonder Virginia Woolf was envious of her skills. I definitely want to reread The Garden Party at some point. My favourite short stories by her are definitely from that collection. Especially I love At the Bay and Marriage A la Mode. She describes love, passion and loneliness in such colourful and brilliant detail. Some of the stories felt a bit too same for me but most of them were beautiful and melancholic.