This is a collection of the 7 best short stories of one of the most iconic female writer ever to have been published, Katherine Mansfield. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:The Garden PartyThe Daughters of the Late ColonelBlissPreludeAt the bayJe ne parle pas francaisHow Pearl Button was Kidnapped

Katherine Mansfield was born on October 14, 1888, in Wellington, New Zealand. After moving to England at age 19, Mansfield secured her reputation as a writer with the story collectionBliss(1920). She reached the height of her powers with her 1922 collectionThe Garden Party. Her last five years were shadowed by tuberculosis; she died from the disease on January 9, 1923, at the age of 34.