The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield

Narrated by: Dame Peggy Ashcroft

This recording contains four of Katherine Mansfield's best stories. In The Daughters of the Late Colonel, two sisters are recently bereaved; while in Her First Ball a young girl attends her first dance. The Singing Lesson features Miss Meadows, a music teacher in turmoil; and in The Stranger, a middle-aged couple are reunited.©1922 Katherine Mansfield (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

The reader was magnificent.

What wonderful stories told in such an intriguing manner. I hung on every word and joined with the characters alongside them in their stories.

Not the full collection

The Garden Party story collection this is not. The title story is not in it. It is four stories from the larger collection, but not titled as Abridged. But the narration was good, the Kathryn Mansfield stories are excellent, and it was free with my membership, so 3 stars.

No Garden Party, But Still Great

Strangely enough, this collection, entitled “The Garden Party,” does not contain the titular story. However, the stories it does have are marvelous.

Not very interesting

Didn’t read synopsis before listening while working in the kitchen. For a change, housework was more interesting than the book. Didn’t realize until halfway through that the story didn’t make any sense—because it wasn’t one story, but a collection. I kept waiting for the two batty sisters to come back and find out they had killed their father or something. There is no break between stores or announcements of the new title to tell you that you have moved on to a new story. You have to pay more attention than I did to know what’s going on, but nothing in the stories caught my attention, so it was rather pointless.

delightful classic

Delightful stories told from the rich and poor point of views. one of the Classics that must be read