[PDF] Classic New Zealand Short Stories eBook

Author : Marion McLeod
Publisher : Williams Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1992
Category : New Zealand
ISBN :

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"The country to be found in these pages is not the place depicted in glossy picture books or economic profiles. But it is a real place, composed of that blend of accuracy and vision which only the imagination, committed to language and experience, can supply. It is the New Zealand of Janet Frame and Katherine Mansfield, of Dan Davin and Frank Sargeson, of Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace." "Some other Country is a collection of stories selected from the body of New Zealand writing that began with the work of the young expatriate writer, Katherine Mansfield. This updated edition begins in 1922 and ends with a story published in 1990. It includes recent work by Vincent O'Sullivan, Owen Marshall and Keri Hulme and stories by newer writers such as Barbara Anderson and John Cranna, alongside well-known stories by Joy Cowley, C.K. Stead and James Courage. It represents the editor's choice of simply 'the best we could find'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Dan Davin
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
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First published in 1953, this classic collection of New Zealand short stories is now available to a new generation of readers.

Author : Patricia Grace
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1742539718

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These are short stories about ordinary folk leading seemingly ordinary lives. The power of community, extended family and culture are central to all. Thirteen stories in which the joys of discovery are tempered by the knowledge of a harder, colder world. Sunlight, childhood and nature set against conflict and misunderstanding, in the ever-present shadows of the spirit of the land.

Author : Katherine Mansfield
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775535002

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Ten stories from the ‘brilliant’ Katherine Mansfield set in New Zealand. As Vincent O’Sullivan states, those encountering Mansfield’s stories for the first time have invariably found they ‘were alive, they were witty, they were moving, they covered new ground’. But with about 70 stories to choose from and a vast array of themes and approaches, where do you start, and how do you begin to understand and best appreciate her writing and achievements? This series features selections of her best stories, grouped by subject and introduced by Mansfield scholar Vincent O’Sullivan, who is also a writer of fiction in his own right. Each volume offers a different way to view Mansfield’s work. This selection includes her most-loved stories about the New Zealand of her childhood. As O'Sullivan explains, his choices cover ‘everything of importance that happened to her, that she observed and experienced, between childhood in Wellington’s wooden houses, to her deciding in Switzerland in July 1922, that her final paragraph about a singing bird was the place for her to stop’. Other titles in the MANSFIELD SELECTIONS series: In Bavaria: ISBN 978-1-77553-498-3 Marriage & Families: ISBN 978-1-77553-501-0 Sex & Lies: ISBN 978-1-77553-499-0 Women Alone: ISBN 978-1-77553-502-7

Author : Albert Wendt
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1869799844

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A collection of classic short stories from the award-winning author, Albert Wendt, acknowledged as one of the Pacific's major writers. Albert Wendt's short stories, providing a complex and profound understanding of people and the world, have been read and praised in New Zealand, the Pacific and internationally. This collection brings together his classic stories published in the Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree and the Birth and Death of the Miracle Man and Other Stories together with exciting, previously uncollected work. '. . . his stories have the tone of timeles, and very savvy, fables.' - New York Times 'A writer of international importance.' - Landfall

Author : Bill Manhire
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1776564731

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First published in 1989 and reprinted numerous times, Six by Six remains the definitive introduction to the classic New Zealand short story.Six by Six is a big, generous book. It shows the full range and vitality of New Zealand fiction published in the twentieth century. These are stories of pace and invention, mischief and melancholy, darkness and joy. From a two-page sketch by Patricia Grace to Maurice Duggan' s short novel &‘ O' Leary' s Orchard' . From classics like Katherine Mansfield' s &‘ The Garden Party' and Frank Sargeson' s &‘ Conversation with My Uncle' to the contemporary brilliance of Owen Marshall and Janet Frame.Edited by Bill Manhire.

Author : Patricia Grace
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 145962467X

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This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel Tu. The feast of stories is varied: urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary. The thread that runs through all the stories, though, is Grace's huge sympathy for the underdog and the perspective of the outsider. The world she depicts is often a stark and unsentimental place, in which people struggle against ageing, rejection, violence and betrayal.

Author : Vincent O'Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 1992
Category : New Zealand
ISBN :

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New Zealand has a rich tradition of short fiction dating back to such 19th-century authors as Henry Lawson, Clara Cheeseman and E.B. Lancaster, some of whose stories are collected here for the first time. In more recent times the genre has attracted the talents of Katherine Mansfield, Frank Sargeson, Dan Davin, Maurice Gee, Janet Frame and Maurice Duggan. This anthology also includes work by such leading Maori writers as Patricia Grace and Witi Ihimaera, and the new generation of writers, including Peter Wells and Keri Hulme.