The Garden Party and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield
The Garden Party and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield
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The Garden Party and Other Stories

Author: Katherine Mansfield, Susannah Fullerton

Narrator: Susannah Fullerton, Naomi Barton, Kylie Elliott, Lisa Giles, Amy Soakes, Erin Marie White, Sarah Bacaller, various narrators

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/13/2024


Synopsis

The Garden Party and Other Stories was published in 1922. A collection of fifteen short stories, it explores themes including life and death, gender and family roles, relationships and duty. CONTENTS:Introduction to Katherine Mansfield, written and read by Susannah Fullerton“At the Bay”“The Garden Party”“The Daughters of the Late Colonel”“Mr. and Mrs. Dove”“The Young Girl”“Life of Ma Parker”“Marriage à la Mode”“The Voyage”“Miss Brill”“Her First Ball”“The Singing Lesson”“The Stranger”“Bank Holiday”“An Ideal Family”“The Lady’s Maid”

About Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated authors. Many of her short stories explore New Zealand identity and its landscapes, and her work has been a shaping force of the short story genre. Mansfield moved to England at the age of nineteen where she lived a bohemian life and associated with members of the Bloomsbury group, challenging many social norms of her time. She died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-two after seeking various treatments throughout Europe.

About Susannah Fullerton

Susannah Fullerton, OAM FRS, has been President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for over twenty-five years. She is Patron of the Kipling Society of Australia, and is a founding member of both the NSW Dickens Society and the Australian Brontë Association. Susannah is Sydney’s best-known lecturer on classic novels. She lectures regularly at the Art Gallery of NSW, at the State Library of NSW, at conferences, schools, and libraries around Australia and overseas.The narrators involved in this project are associates of Voices of Today, an Australian audiobook production company.

About Naomi Barton

Until recently, Naomi Barton traveled the world as an International School Drama teacher with her husband and two daughters. This enabled her to collect many different stories, accents, and adventures. As well as listening to audio, she loves to groom her Ragdoll cats, play with watercolour paints, and support her teenage daughters to be the most amazing young women they can be. Her interpretive skills combined with her passion for voice work is just part of what she brings to audiobook narration.

About Amy Soakes

Amy Soakes is an Australian voice actor with over twenty years of experience both in performing and production. She has produced over eight hundred video segments and voiced over a thousand television shows, corporate videos, training programs, and commercials. An expert in utilizing accents, she has been narrating audiobooks for more than four years.

About Erin Marie White

Erin Marie White is an Australian voice-over talent known for her youthful, warm, and expressive voice.

About Sarah Bacaller

Sarah Bacaller is a writer, researcher, and audiobook narrator from Melbourne, Australia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit

The book is a collection of fine expressionistic short stories… At the Bay… A summer day spent by the sea… Adults and children… Talks, games and thoughts… It was all very well to say it was the common lot of women to bear children. It wasn’t true. She, for one, could prove that wrong. She was broken,......more

Goodreads review by Violet

Piazza del Duomo is my least favourite place in Florence. I always hurry through it. Probably San Marco (except at four in the morning) and St Peters are my least favourite places in, respectively, Venice and Rome so I guess I just don’t respond very well to the grandiose. I prefer what’s smaller, m......more

Goodreads review by Georgia

If there was just one sentence I could save from a fire, it would be this one from The Garden Party: "And the perfect afternoon slowly ripened, slowly faded, slowly its petals closed." Here is life in all its order. Rhythmic in sound and symbol, hushed as a prayer. Read it again out loud. Though "lo......more