The Garden Party and Other Stories

The Garden Party and Other StoriesBy: Katherine Mansfield Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half understood emotions that make up everyday experience from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch

The Cuddly Koala

from both Irish expatriates and non-Irish visitors

the English language

riotously funny and audacious exploration of the sacred and the profane—and pretty much everything in between

知名作家與中文系教授，已出版文學作品近四十種，創辦【張曼娟小學堂】，致力推廣少兒中文力、創作力，關注於人格之培養，企圖將經典轉化為生活化的實用手冊。2006年企劃創作【張曼娟奇幻學堂】，2008～2009年策劃出版【張曼娟成語學堂I、II】， 2010年策劃出版【張曼娟唐詩學堂】，2017年策劃出版【張曼娟論語學堂】，藉由好看的故事，將經典帶入日常生活，為孩子們的人生打好堅實基礎。

divided into six thematic chapters

Crime writing gets no better than this

雖然書中所有畫面都是想像出來的，但只要開始閱讀，絕對會讓你沉入其中……或許，這些戰鬥正在我們不知道的地方真實上演，誰知道呢？

courageous heroine

are forever inscribed in our hearts and minds

and the arts

surprising and often emotionally powerful stories of bravery