Mansfield, Katherine

A frivolous, wealthy family's garden party continues uninterrupted by the death of a working-class neighbor. Includes an analysis of the story and a biography of the author.

Presents fifteen short fiction stories by nineteenth-century author Katherine Mansfield, many set in her native New Zealand, including the title work in which young Laura Sheridan's idyllic life is changed when news comes in the middle of a garden party that a workman has been killed down the lane.

Relates Katherine Mansfield's classic short story about a garden party which continues uninterrupted by a neighborhood death.