Loved itcatherine mansfield is an early 20th century short story writer from new zealand who is absolutely amazing i have loved everything i've read by her short stories are just amazing
The Garden Party and other stories (1922)
Others: Positive Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the paddocks and bungalows began. The sandy road was gone and the paddocks and bungalows the other side of it; there were no white dunes covered with reddish grass beyond them; there was nothing to mark which was beach and where was the sea.
- ISBN:
- 9781583419182
- Length:
- 255 pages
Genres: young adult, classics
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