Something Childish and Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculosis in 1923. It appeared in the US under the title The Little Girl. Most of the stories were written between the publication of her first and second collections, Bliss and Other Stories (1920) and The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922). - Summary by Rob Marland (6 hr 17 min)
Chapters
Introductory Note | 2:10 | Read by Rob Marland |
The Tiredness of Rosabel | 13:28 | Read by Fractal Pariah |
How Pearl Button was Kidnapped | 9:56 | Read by Phil Schempf |
The Journey to Bruges | 12:31 | Read by Marcia Eppich-Harris |
A Truthful Adventure | 15:15 | Read by Trish Thompson |
New Dresses | 25:32 | Read by Sriks |
The Woman at the Store | 25:00 | Read by Marcia Eppich-Harris |
Ole Underwood | 11:36 | Read by Rob Marland |
The Little Girl | 9:11 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
Millie | 13:47 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
Pension Séguin | 13:01 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
Violet | 15:22 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
Bains Turcs | 14:58 | Read by Dafni Ma |
Something Childish but Very Natural | 52:06 | Read by Rob Marland |
An Indiscreet Journey | 33:31 | Read by ToddHW |
Spring Pictures | 8:49 | Read by Nemo |
Late at Night | 6:53 | Read by Rob Marland |
Two Tuppenny Ones, Please | 6:44 | Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
The Black Cap | 13:23 | Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
A Suburban Fairy Tale | 9:52 | Read by Rob Marland |
Carnation | 8:15 | Read by Katharina Glowalla |
See-Saw | 8:22 | Read by dnce17 |
This Flower | 6:16 | Read by Sommer Ward |
The Wrong House | 9:00 | Read by Rob Marland |
Sixpence | 17:02 | Read by Rob Marland |
Poison | 15:12 | Read by Saint Ananda |