This collection allows the reader to become familiar with the complete range of Mansfield's work from the early, satirical stories set in Bavaria, through the luminous recollections of her childhood in New Zealand, and through the mature, deeply felt stories of her last years.

This four-volume edition of Katherine Mansfield's works, assembled by Series Editor Gerri Kimber and her co-editors, brings together, for the first time, everything Mansfield wrote aside from her letters (which have their own edition).

This unique and meticulously edited collection of Katherine Mansfield's greatest works includes: Short Story Collections_x000D_ Bliss, and Other Stories_x000D_ The Garden Party, and Other Stories_x000D_ The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories_x000D_ Something Childish, and Other Stories_x000D_ In a German Pension, and Other Stories_x000D_ The Aloe_x000D_ Unfinished Stories_x000D_ Poems_x000D_ Poems: 1909- 1910 _x000D_ Poems: 1911-1913 _x000D_ Poems at the Villa Pauline: 1916 _x000D_ Poems: 1917-1919_x000D_ Child Verses: 1907_x000D_ Letters _x000D_ Journal_x000D_ Essays & Book Reviews_x000D_ Biography:_x000D_ The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Ruth E. Mantz & J. Middleton Murry_x000D_ Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888–1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. At 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Like Woolf, Mansfield was also interested in the feelings and thoughts of her characters rather than plot development and hence her short stories show the complexities of a character's interior life in all its various shades.

Katherine Mansfield has been widely recognised as one of the key authors of her generation, continuing to influence literary modernism and the short story genre through her nomadic existence, colonial perspective, eclectic interests and impressive range of literary acquaintances. This volume utilises these seemingly endless avenues for critical exploration, analysing Mansfield’s influences, including the familial, historical and geographical as well as literary and artistic approaches. Some connections are well established and acknowledged, some controversial, many still undiscovered. This volume brings a fresh collection of original viewpoints on Katherine Mansfield’s life and work, both of which, in her own case, are frequently indistinguishable. It investigates her fascinating connection with Poland which is explored in a complex and detailed way for the first time; suggests new or revised views on her connections to other English and American writers; and finally examines some of the aspects of her writing process, her engagement with the arts, imagination, memories and her constructions of different kinds of space.

Bliss and Other Stories is a 1920 collection of short stories by the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield.