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Katherine Mansfield

The Garden Party and Other Stories

  • b6012005981цитирует3 года назад
    be alone all day, in a house whose every sound seems foreign to you
  • b6012005981цитирует3 года назад
    Bliss concerns a character similar to the autho
  • b6012005981цитирует3 года назад
    Je ne parle pas français, one of her darker works, inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground.
  • Kate Egorovaцитирует4 года назад
    . THE GARDEN PARTY.
  • 𝓜𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓮𝔂цитирует4 года назад
    lifted a drowsy head; their cry sounded in the dreams of little children... who lifted their arms to drag down, to cuddle the darling little woolly lambs of sleep.
  • Nast Huertaцитирует5 лет назад
    It had been a miracle, simply a miracle, to hear him say, as they walked home from church that very dark night, "You know, somehow or other, I've got fond of you."
  • Nast Huertaцитирует5 лет назад
    I have come to the conclusion that I am not a marrying man, and the idea of settling down fills me with nothing but—" and the word "disgust" was scratched out lightly and "regret" written over the top.
  • Nast Huertaцитирует5 лет назад
    a big old woman, sitting upright, with a roll of knitting on her embroidered apron.
  • Nast Huertaцитирует5 лет назад
    But to have a proper cry over all these things would take a long time. All the same, the time for it had come. She must do it. She couldn't put it off any longer; she couldn't wait any more... Where could she go?
  • Nast Huertaцитирует5 лет назад
    There had been this other life, running out, bringing things home in bags, getting things on approval, discussing them with Jug, and taking them back to get more things on approval, and arranging father's trays and trying not to annoy father. But it all seemed to have happened in a kind of tunnel. It wasn't real. It was only when she came out of the tunnel into the moonlight or by the sea or into a thunderstorm that she really felt herself. What did it mean? What was it she was always wanting? What did it all lead to? Now? Now?
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