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A posthumous gathering of completed short stories and fragments presents tightly observed domestic scenes and fleeting psychological moments. The pieces vary in length and form, moving between intimate encounters, social interactions, and reflective episodes that consider isolation, desire, illness, memory, and the passing of time. The author's attention to small, telling details and nuanced interior states produces both witty social observation and poignant meditations on mortality and creative struggle. Unfinished fragments sit alongside polished narratives, creating an elliptical, impressionistic collection that emphasizes mood, perception, and the delicate mechanics of human relationships.

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Title: The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories

Author: Katherine Mansfield

Author of introduction, etc.: John Middleton Murry

Release date: December 2, 2021 [eBook #66871]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923

Credits: Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DOVES' NEST, AND OTHER STORIES ***

THE
DOVES’ NEST
AND OTHER STORIES

BOOKS OF STORIES BY
KATHERINE MANSFIELD

  • BLISS
  • THE GARDEN PARTY
  • THE DOVES’ NEST

NEW YORK: ALFRED · A · KNOPF

THE
DOVES’ NEST

AND OTHER STORIES

BY KATHERINE
MANSFIELD

Reverence, that angel of the world.”

NEW YORK
ALFRED . A . KNOPF
MCMXXIII

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

Published, August, 1923
Second Printing, August, 1923
Third Printing, October, 1923
Fourth Printing, November, 1923

Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York.
Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y.

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO
WALTER DE LA MARE