The Garden Party and Other Stories
by the same author as BLISS and other stories
by the same author as BLISS and other stories
Miss Mansfield's stories are like life reflected in a round mirror. Everything is exquisitely bright, exquisitely distinct and just a little queer. — The Nation
BLISS is the sort of book that spoils one for everything else … it is impossible to appraise really good work; all one can do is to recognise it when one sees it, to say simply ‘this is a fine book’ — Pall Mall
They arrest by their competence, their realism, their irony and wit; they are an expression, symbolic almost, of her times … Written with such sureness and skill … Beauty a high order. — J.C. Squire in the Observer
This book places Miss Mansfield as the best of our contemporary writers of fiction. — Cambridge Review
Miss Mansfield has the genius that can make a short story out of nothing … the same admirably restrained touch, the same understanding will be found in every one of the stories. — Evening Standard