Novels & Novelists
- London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1930
London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1930. Very Good+/Very Good. London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey printed dust jacket retaining original price (7/6 net); [8],308pp. Dust jacket spine panel darkened, textblock lightly toned, else a Very Good or better copy.
The late New Zealand author's collected criticism, covering works by Jane Austen ("a writer who has remained wonderfully remote and apart and free from the flying burrs of this work-a-day world"); Gertrude Stein ("Miss Gertrude Stein has discovered a new way of writing stories. It is just to keep right on writing them"); and Edith Wharton (of "The Age of Innocence": "Does Mrs. Wharton expect us to grow warm in a gallery where the temperature is so sparklingly cool?"). Dostoevsky, E.M. Forster, Vita Sackville-West, and many others also get the Mansfield treatment.
The late New Zealand author's collected criticism, covering works by Jane Austen ("a writer who has remained wonderfully remote and apart and free from the flying burrs of this work-a-day world"); Gertrude Stein ("Miss Gertrude Stein has discovered a new way of writing stories. It is just to keep right on writing them"); and Edith Wharton (of "The Age of Innocence": "Does Mrs. Wharton expect us to grow warm in a gallery where the temperature is so sparklingly cool?"). Dostoevsky, E.M. Forster, Vita Sackville-West, and many others also get the Mansfield treatment.