DISCUSS KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S GROUND-BREAKING COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND
EXPLORE HER IMPORTANCE 100 YEARS AFTER HER DEATH
HIGHLIGHTS
* Take this English book club to maintain your English fluency & accuracy
* 5 hours of live classes to help you develop phrasing & expressing your ideas
* Read these short stories and discuss their meaning and impact
* Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes
Develop more sophisticated ways of expressing yourself in English in this 5 week
English book club course using Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party & Other
Stories. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class
and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while
also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised
feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
The Book Club book
This collection of short stories was written towards the end of Katherine
Mansfield's tragically short life. With a variety of settings - New Zealand,
England and the French Riviera - the stories reflect on everyday experience.
After an introductory session on the author, each week we will read and discuss
the following stories:
Week 1: The author's life and legacy
Week 2: At the Bay
Week 3: The Garden Party, The Daughters of the Late Colonel, Mr and Mrs Dove
Week 4: The Young Girl, Life of Ma Parker, Marriage à la Mode, The Voyage, Miss
Brill
Week 5 : The First Ball, The Singing Lesson, The Stranger, Bank Holiday, An
Ideal Family, The Lady's Maid
The stories range from the impressionistic (At the Bay), to the darkly comic
(The Daughters of the Late Colonel) and to the brutal and sharp (Miss Brill).
Geoff says:
> "This writer has had a profound effect on both the style of the short story,
> and on the subject matter and theme. 100 years after her death we are reading
> her to discuss her literary importance, and to share in her unmistakable
> delight in being alive and putting life on the page . She said: “The amount
> of minute and delicate joy I get out of watching people and things … is simply
> enormous, the detail of life, the life of life.”