Miss Brill: Katherine Mansfield

And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too precious, that would fly away once he let go.`
Three sharp and powerful short stories from Katherine Mansfield, one of the genre`s all-time masters.
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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923). Mansfield`s works available in Penguin Classics are The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield and The Garden Party and Other Stories.