The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2


Read by Peter Dann

(5 stars; 4 reviews)

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


(5 stars)

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


(5 stars)

really pops off at the end.