Katherine Mansfield's short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes 'Bliss', 'The Garden Party' and 'In a German Pension', and fifteen fragments of unfinished stories published after her tragic death, including 'Honesty', a tale of two bachelors, and 'The Doves' Nest', a story of a widowed mother and her daughter in the Riviera who receive a mysterious gentleman caller.