Physical description
Hard cover book. The Doves Nest & Other Stories
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Publisher: Constable & Co Ltd
Date: 1923-1932
Further Information: Light blue Cloth hardcover with lettering and patterning to spine in gilt. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.
Publication type
fiction
Inscriptions & markings
The label on the spine with typed text PAT FIC MAN
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute and Free Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Summary
The Doves' Nest and Other Stories is not a single novel, but a collection of short stories by the modernist pioneer Katherine Mansfield. The collection comprises fifteen short fiction pieces six completed stories and nine unfinished fragments written during the final, highly productive years of Mansfield's life in France and Switzerland.
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References
- Biography: Katherine Mansfield Biography: Katherine Mansfield | English Literature: Victorians.
- Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield - The British Library
- Project Gutenberg.
- Archive.Org.
