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In a German Pension

Katherine Mansfield

Publisher: Read & Co. Classics

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First published in 1911, “In a German Pension” is a collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield. The stories include: "Germans at Meat", "The Baron", "The sister of the Baroness", "Frau Fischer", "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding", "The Modern Soul", "At “Lehmann’s”", "The Luft Bad", "A Birthday", "The Child-Who-Was-Tired", "The Advanced Lady", "The Swing of the Pendulum", and "A Blaze". Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888–1923) was a modernist writer from New Zealand who produced poetry and short stories under the pseudonym Katherine Mansfield. She left New Zealand when she was 19 and relocated to England, where she became friends with a number of notable literary figures including D. H. Lawrence, Ottoline Morrell, and Virginia Woolf.  Mansfield died of pulmonary tuberculosis in France at the age of 34. Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing these classic short stories now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Available since: 12/07/2020.

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