The Aloe (Capuchin Classics) by Katherine Mansfield
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Overview: Linda Burnell dreams, listless and distant, while downstairs her mother sets in order the family’s new home in the New Zealand countryside. Her vigorous and exhausting husband, Stanley, is at the office, but will return with eager and admiring eyes. Her children prepare lunch on a concrete step and her sister sings love songs to an imaginary young man.This is The Aloe, which Katherine Mansfield wrote to crystallise the memories of her childhood. It was reworked to become her acclaimed Prelude.
Most readers of Mansfield hold “Prelude” in the highest regard. I’m going to stray from the herd on this one and say that “The Aloe” should never have been pared down. There is so much more here than just a few deleted scenes: it’s Mansfield writing what she thought would be her first novel. Some of the characters that are lost in the Wolff’s editing of the text are essential to climbing into the novel that almost was. We’re lucky that we can piece it together with this, “At the Bay,” and “The Dolls House,” a perfect trio that gives the modern reader a clear sense of Mansfield’s innovations to the world of literature.
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but moved to Europe in 1903. In London she befriended modernist writers such as D.H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Her own work influenced by Anton Chekhov, is thought by many to have taken the short story form to its ultimate pitch.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
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