Bliss, and Other Stories
"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so dominant in modern fiction", a critic wrote in the Spectator on the publication of this, the second of Mansfield's collections of short stories in book form. There is a wide range of forms and subjects here. Some of these stories are bold, early forays into literary territory that Mansfield's frenemy Virginia Woolf would later triumphantly stake out as her own. The adult male characters tend to be perversely wooden, the central female characters often verge on states of ecstasy or frank neuroticism, while ever present in the background are children, whose experiences are nearly always treated with great tenderness and sympathy. (Summary by Peter Dann)
Genre(s): Literary Fiction
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | Prelude, parts 1 to 6 | Peter Dann |
00:47:41 |
Play 02 | Prelude — parts 7 to 12 | Peter Dann |
00:49:56 |
Play 03 | Je ne Parle pas Français | Peter Dann |
01:03:27 |
Play 04 | Bliss | Peter Dann |
00:29:00 |
Play 05 | The Wind Blows | Peter Dann |
00:10:47 |
Play 06 | Psychology | Peter Dann |
00:17:05 |
Play 07 | Pictures | Peter Dann |
00:18:37 |
Play 08 | The Man without a Temperament | Peter Dann |
00:30:52 |
Play 09 | Mr. Reginald Peacock’s Day | Peter Dann |
00:19:49 |
Play 10 | Sun and Moon | Peter Dann |
00:13:19 |
Play 11 | Feuille d’Album | Peter Dann |
00:13:18 |
Play 12 | A Dill Pickle | Peter Dann |
00:16:16 |
Play 13 | The Little Governess | Peter Dann |
00:33:20 |
Play 14 | Revelations | Peter Dann |
00:15:03 |
Play 15 | The Escape | Peter Dann |
00:13:03 |