The Garden Party

de Katherine Mansfield

“'Let’s go into the garden,’” suggests Laura, the artistic young woman in “The Garden Party.” In this and the other short stories in the collection, Mansfield sketches wonderful portraits of human nature. Whether she’s discussing how roses are the only flowers people are sure to know the name of or showing a young woman coming of age, Mansfield crafts meaningful descriptions that have been compared to those of Chekhov.