Something Childish and Other Stories


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Instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form, Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Something Childish and Other Stories’ captures the vulnerability of raw emotion in its most charged state. Inviting readers to reflect upon our social experiences, this collection constitutes a deep dive into what it truly means to be human. ‘Something Childish and Other Stories’ is the ideal companion for fans of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in ‘The Notebook’. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a short story writer and poet from New Zealand who was regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her life was turned into a TV series in 1973 called ́A Picture of Katherine Mansfield ́, and many of her stories have been made into movies and TV shows, such as ́Winners and Losers ́ (1975) based on the story ́The Woman at the Store ́ and the most recent from 2021 ́Dill Pickle ́ starring Caroline Duncan and Jim Thalman.




Something Childish


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Something Childish, and Other Stories


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Something Childish, and other stories Katherine Mansfield25 Complete Short StoriesMost of the stories and sketches in this collection were written in the years between the publication of Katherine Mansfield's first book, "In a German Pension," in 1911 and the publication of her second, "Bliss and other Stories," in 1920. There are a few exceptions. The first story, The Tiredness of Rosabel, was written in 1908 when Katherine Mansfield was nineteen years old, and the three stories following also were written before "In a German Pension" was published: while Sixpence and Poison were written after Bliss had appeared. Sixpence was excluded from "The Garden-Party and Other Stories" by Katherine Mansfield because she thought it "sentimental"; Poison was excluded because I thought it was not wholly successful. I have since changed my mind: it now seems to me a little masterpiece.I have no doubt that Katherine Mansfield, were she still alive, would not have suffered some of these stories to appear. When she was urged to allow "In a German Pension" to be republished, she would always reply: "Not now; not yet - not until I have a body of work done and it can be seen in perspective. It is not true of me now: I am not like that any more. When the time for a collected edition comes -" she would end, laughing. The time has come.Table of Contents1. The Tiredness of Rosabel 2. How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped 3. The Journey to Bruges 4. A Truthful Adventure 5. New Dresses 6. The Woman at the Store 7. Ole Underwood 8. The Little Girl 9. Millie 10. Pension S�guin 11. Violet 12. Bains Turcs 13. Something Childish But Very Natural 14. An Indiscreet Journey 15. Spring Pictures 16. Late at Night 17. Two Tuppenny Ones, Please 18. The Black Cap 19. A Suburban Fairy Tale 20. Carnation 21. See-Saw 22. This Flower 23. The Wrong House 24. Sixpence 25. Poison




Something Childish and Other Stories


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Something Childish and Other Stories is a 1924 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in America as The Little Girl. This anthology was published after her death by her husband John Middleton Murry. Murry wrote in his introductory note that this volume contains the stories written between Bliss: and Other Stories (1920) and The Garden Party: and Other Stories (1922). The additional stories are the earlier first four stories, plus "Sixpence" (which Mansfield thought sentimental) and "Poison".




Something Childish


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Something Childish But Very Natural


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Henry is naive and has never experienced love. When he meets golden-haired Edna in a train carriage, however, his world changes forever. But the intensity of their feelings threatens their innocence, and Edna knows she is too young to leave her childhood behind. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love...







CHILDish


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Her childhood was filled with domestic violence, school bullies and sexual confusion. Then, a grown man leads her astray, delivering astonishing heartbreak that leaves her searching for salvation.Author KishaLynn takes us on a journey that begins as Kisha-a thornless rose growing from concrete-learning how to live life on her own terms. The only child of a teenage single mother, KishaLynn emerges as a resilient and rebellious teenager, destined to triumph by any means necessary. CHILDish is a cathartic chronicle of growing up as a poor, black, queer female millennial. Its pages are filled with heroic honesty and poetic words that are infused with a perfect balance of pain and humor.CHILDish is not a children's book. This is a coming of age narrative that every woman and man should read for their own healing. You'll leave it wanting revenge for little Kisha and craving more stories from KishaLynn. Fortunately, the journey doesn't end here-CHILDish is only part one.







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