"Ashcroft, Peggy" . . "Short stories, New Zealand 20th century." . . "1900 - 1999" . . "Mansfield, Katherine" . . "Manners and customs." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Downloadable audio books" . . . . . . . "La garden party" . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . "The garden party and, Bliss"@en . . "In The Daughters of the Late Colonel, two sisters are bereaved; while in Her First Ball, a young girl attends her first dance. The Singing Lesson features Miss Meadows, a music teacher in turmoil; and in The Strangers, a middle-aged Couple are reunited. Poignant and moving, these stories portray ordinary lives with a vivid humanity and imaginative truth."@en . "In The Daughters of the Late Colonel, two sisters are bereaved; while in Her First Ball, a young girl attends her first dance. The Singing Lesson features Miss Meadows, a music teacher in turmoil; and in The Strangers, a middle-aged Couple are reunited. Poignant and moving, these stories portray ordinary lives with a vivid humanity and imaginative truth." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The fifteen stories collected in this volume demonstrate the genius of a woman who, in her short life, was compared to Chekov. Her stories are sensitive revelations of human behaviour in quite ordinary situations." . . . "The garden party [and] Bliss"@en . "Laura, une jeune fille de bonne famille aide à la préparation de la fête qui va avoir lieu dans le jardin, lorsque son insouciance va être troublée par l'annonce de la mort d'un ouvrier ce jour là. Une nouvelle, toute en finesse qui aborde les différences entre classes sociales, et la prise de conscience de la jeune fille de la réalité." . "Fifteen short stories of sensitive revelations of human behavior in quite ordinary situations."@en . "Short stories"@en . . . . . . "Audiobooks" . "Audiobooks"@en . . "The garden party Bliss" . "The Garden Party"@en . "The garden party"@en . "The garden party" . . . . . "A collection of fifteen stories that are sensitive revelations of human behavior in ordinary situations. In the title story, a young woman's garden party coincides with the death of a working-class neighbor, bringing a brush of mortality and realism into her carefully constructed plans and ideals." . . . . . "Short stories, New Zealand." . . "New Zealand" . . "New Zealand." .