The Garden Party

Catherine Mansfield, the New Zealand writer known for her short works inspired by Chekhov, was a modernist and loved to experiment. She gained recognition from critics and colleagues, but her life was short, and she died in 1923 at the age of thirty-four.

Mansfield moved in circles of such famous people as D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and O. Huxley. She also collaborated with S. S. Koteljansky on the translation of Russian literature.

The collection “A Party in the Garden” includes ten unique stories, partly set in New Zealand, as well as in England and on the French Riviera. The themes include love, death, and loneliness, revealing unspoken emotions, life’s contradictions, disappointments, and everyday joys.