The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (Penguin Classics)

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"Katherine Mansfield is not required reading to be a person—but passion and point of view are—and since Mansfield is one of my personal favorites, I am going to foist her on you. She's a bit like a New Zealand Edith Wharton with a sprinkling of Jane Austen and John Cheever. But clever. "The Doll's House" is one of my favorite short stories of all time and just to prove it, I named the heroine of my first novel after a character in that story."