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The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories is a collection of both finished and unfinished short stories written by Katherine Mansfield. The collection was published posthumously, not long after Mansfield’s death in 1923, by her husband, John Middleton Murry.

Between 1922 and 1923, Katherine Mansfield wrote four volumes of short stories. This recording includes all sixty-three stories from the four collections, including a number of incomplete stories collated after Mansfield’s death.

l fait chaud, la ville est insupportable en été, surtout après si longtemps à contempler alternativement les murs de la maison et l'écran de l'ordinateur. Diane et Claudine, on les comprend, souhaitent désespérément s’évader en nature, que leur rosé ne soit pas seul à prendre le frais. Sauf que des chalets à portée de leur budget, ça n’existe tout simplement pas. Survient le miracle Madeleine : leur vieille amie est prête à leur prêter sa petite cabane au bord d’un lac–du moment qu’elle peut sortir de sa résidence sur-réglementée et être de l’aventure.

Rachel Dale hasn't been home in over six years. Born in a small Midwestern town, Rachel never planned her future too far from Huntsberry or from the friends she had made growing up there. However, after a broken heart and a broken promise, Rachel found herself canceling her original college plans and getting on a plane to Europe.

The Complete Katherine Mansfield Collection contains the five volumes of short stories written by Mansfield between 1911 and 1924 which established her as one of the best short story writers of her generation, as-well as the only novel she ever penned: The Aloe. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a New Zealand-born English writer, famous for her expertly observed short stories. She had a great influence on the development of the short story as a form of literature.