The New Zealand-born short story writer Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) worked within modernist and cosmopolitan circles in London in the 1910s. The moral emptiness of the older generation of men who survived the First World War, and supported its continuation, is exposed in the unnamed boss’s inability properly to mourn, let alone retain in his memory, his son’s death six years before at the Western Front. ‘The Fly’ bears all the trademarks of its author Katherine Mansfield’s style and approach-cool, nuanced, sharp, perceptive of human frailty. Schirmer, 1914, 8°, KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S COPY, LATER IN THE LIBRARY OF JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY, the front blank inscribed: 'Katherine Mansfield 1914,' and also bearing Murry's library reference mark in pencil, original blue cloth gilt.Prof. Elleke Boehmer in conversation with Sam Arnon talking about the text, looking especially at some of its imagery and ways of interpreting the character of the Boss.

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Wir müssen jeder sein: allein arbeiten, allein kämpfen, um unsere Kraft, unsere Opferwilligkeit zu beweisen', the same note then copied by John Middleton Murry onto rear pastedown, original blind-stamped rose cloth (soiled) - H. Ich will arbeiten, ich will um das Glück um die Zufriedenheit kämpfen. Ich muss mich nützlich machen, um wieder an das Leben glauben zu können.

Christmas 1908,' ANNOTATED IN PENCIL BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD on page 3 and with a 14-line pencil note in German on the rear free endpaper reading: 'Ich muss arbeiten, um vergessen zu können, ich muss bekämpfen, um mich selbst wieder achten zu können. Grant, 1907, 16°, KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S COPY, LATER IN THE LIBRARY OF JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY, inscribed on front blank: 'Kathleen with love from Sylvia. Schirmer, 1914, 8°, KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S COPY, LATER IN THE LIBRARY OF JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY, the front blank inscribed: 'Katherine Mansfield 1914,' and also bearing Murry's library reference mark in pencil, original blue cloth gilt.

Glück by Katherine Mansfield