The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2
Katherine Mansfield
Read by Peter Dann
The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly living with one foot firmly planted in this life, even if her other is already reaching tentatively across a gloomy chasm to the next. Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. (Summary by Peter Dann) (5 hr 53 min)
Chapters
At the Bay — parts 1 to 6 | 40:14 | Read by Peter Dann |
At the Bay — parts 7 to 12 | 42:26 | Read by Peter Dann |
The Garden-Party | 32:48 | Read by Peter Dann |
The Daughters of the Late Colonel | 43:16 | Read by Peter Dann |
Mr. and Mrs. Dove | 19:57 | Read by Peter Dann |
The Young Girl | 13:17 | Read by Peter Dann |
Life of Ma Parker | 14:40 | Read by Peter Dann |
Marriage à la Mode | 23:51 | Read by Peter Dann |
The Voyage | 19:07 | Read by Peter Dann |
Miss Brill | 11:46 | Read by Peter Dann |
Her First Ball | 15:31 | Read by Peter Dann |
The Singing Lesson | 14:32 | Read by Peter Dann |
The Stranger | 27:06 | Read by Peter Dann |
Bank Holiday | 8:07 | Read by Peter Dann |
An Ideal Family | 15:03 | Read by Peter Dann |
The Lady’s Maid | 11:33 | Read by Peter Dann |
Reviews
Richard
A beautifully nuanced collection of stories that mix the mundane with the mysterious in a quite spellbinding way. And the readings by Peter Dann are characteristically first class - utterly sympathetic to the individual tone and tenor of each story.
enjoyable
Greg Wilson
really pops off at the end.