{"product_id":"the-montana-stories","title":"The Montana Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 500px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/chalet_copy.jpg?v=1593033813\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWITH A PUBLISHER'S EDITORIAL NOTE\u003cbr\u003e344pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155158\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1921 Katherine Mansfield came to Switzerland, to live at the Chalet des Sapins in Montana; she was 32 and seriously ill with tuberculosis, but the next few months were to be the most fruitful of her life - she did not have much time left to her. \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Montana Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e contains all the short stories she wrote between July of that year and her death in January 1923.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese short stories have never before been published together with unfinished fragments and extracts from the Letters and Journals from those months, and new and detailed editorial notes; nor have the original illustrations that accompanied the stories' first magazine publication been previously reprinted. But by reading everything in strictly chronological order the reader understands the way a writer of genius forced herself on during this astonishingly creative period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe critic John Carey chose Katherine Mansfield's short stories as one of his favourite books of the last century: 'Nearly half are set in the New Zealand of her childhood... Though death intrudes in almost every story, melancholy is debarred. The focus is on those starting life, not ending it.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eThe fabric is 'Stems and looping tendrils with harebells', designed in 1921 by Constance Irving. We chose it because the delicate blue harebells could be the gentians growing in the mountains; although the background is sombre, the flowers are both pretty and sophisticated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eChalet des Sapins, Montana, in 1913; Katherine Mansfield lived on the top floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Katherine Mansfield","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098755813683,"sku":"laf1789694411857","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098755846451,"sku":"zai1789694411858","price":29.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098755879219,"sku":"bqi1789694411859","price":37.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098755911987,"sku":"aob1789694411860","price":48.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/the-montana-stories_1.png?v=1789694416","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/the-montana-stories","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}