Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party & Other Stories - Thursdays from 27th June 17.30 C.E.T.

Description

Highlights

Develop more sophisticated ways of expressing yourself in English in this 5 week English book club course using Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party & Other Stories. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book

This collection of short stories was written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. With a variety of settings - New Zealand, England and the French Riviera - the stories reflect on everyday experience. After an introductory session on the author, each week we will read and discuss the following stories:Week 1: The author's life and legacyWeek 2: At the BayWeek 3: The Garden Party, The Daughters of the Late Colonel, Mr and Mrs DoveWeek 4: The Young Girl, Life of Ma Parker, Marriage à la Mode, The Voyage, Miss BrillWeek 5 : The First Ball, The Singing Lesson, The Stranger, Bank Holiday, An Ideal Family, The Lady's MaidThe stories range from the impressionistic (At the Bay), to the darkly comic (The Daughters of the Late Colonel) and to the brutal and sharp (Miss Brill).

Geoff says:

"This writer has had a profound effect on both the style of the short story, and on the subject matter and theme. 100 years after her death we are reading her to discuss her literary importance, and to share in her unmistakable delight in being alive and putting life on the page . She said: “The amount of minute and delicate joy I get out of watching people and things … is simply enormous, the detail of life, the life of life.”