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Bliss and Other Stories
English BooksWhale Edition by Katherine Mansfield
A public-domain original edition centered on desire, marriage, loneliness, social masks, dinner-table unease, and Mansfield’s precise modernist short fiction.
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Bliss and Other Stories
Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield is presented here as a clean original-language edition. The work is especially valuable for readers interested in desire, marriage, loneliness, social masks, dinner-table unease, and Mansfield’s precise modernist short fiction. Its themes, historical context, and authorial style give this edition strong discovery value for classic literature and public-domain research.
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Katherine Mansfield died in 1923, and Bliss and Other Stories was first published or composed in 1920. These dates support the public-domain basis for the original English source text used in this edition.
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Bliss and Other Stories
Bliss, and Other Stories
by Katherine Mansfield
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LONDON: CONSTABLE
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_Published_ 1920 _Reprinted_ 1920 _Reprinted_ 1921 _Reprinted_ 1921 _Reprinted_ 1921 _Reprinted_ 1922 _Reprinted_ 1922 _Reprinted_ 1923 _Reprinted_ 1924 _Reprinted_ 1925
Printed in Great Britain at _The Mayflower Press, Plymouth._ William Brendon & Son, Ltd.
“. . . _but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle danger, we pluck this flower, safety._”
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- 01Full text
- 02LONDON: CONSTABLE
- 03& COMPANY LIMITED
- 04JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY
- 05Prelude
- 06I think that is most wise.” . . . Talking things over with Linda was a
- 07I opened my eyes very wide. There I had been for all eternity, as it
- 08I hate whisky. Every time I take it into my mouth my stomach rises
- 09I felt hurt. I felt as a woman must feel when a man takes out his watch
- 10I didn’t. I merely felt a little sick. Having been up for my first ride
- 11I went over for mine like a little gentleman. She poured out another
- 12I shrugged. “He is, rather.”
- 13I put out my hand—“Ah, my poor little friend.”
- 14I never went near the place again.
- 15Bliss
- 16The Wind Blows
- 17Psychology
- 18Pictures
- 19BACKWASH FILM CO.”
- 20The Man without a Temperament
- 21I didn’t hear you come in. Did you have a good time? How nice you
- 22Mr. Reginald Peacock’s Day
- 23Sun and Moon
- 24Feuille d’Album
- 25A Dill Pickle
- 26The Little Governess
- 27Revelations
- 28The Escape
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