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MP3 Audio CD. Prelude 1 THERE was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother's lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance. Isabel, very superior, was perched beside the new handy-man on the driver's seat. Hold-alls, bags and boxes were piled upon the floor. "These are absolute necessities that I will not let out of my sight for one instant," said Linda Burnell, her voice trembling with fatigue and excitement. Lottie and Kezia stood on the patch of lawn just inside the gate all ready for the fray in their coats with brass anchor buttons and little round caps with battleship ribbons. Hand in hand, they stared with round solemn eyes first at the absolute necessities and then at their mother. "We shall simply have to leave them. That is all. We shall simply have to cast them off," said Linda Burnell. A strange little laugh flew from her… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Prelude 1 THERE was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother's lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance. Isabel, very superior, was perched beside the new handy-man on the driver's seat. Hold-alls, bags and boxes were piled upon the floor. "These are absolute necessities that I will not let out of my sight for one instant," said Linda Burnell, her voice trembling with fatigue and excitement. Lottie and Kezia stood on the patch of lawn just inside the gate all ready for the fray in their coats with brass anchor buttons and little round caps with battleship ribbons. Hand in hand, they stared with round solemn eyes first at the absolute necessities and then at their mother. "We shall simply have to leave them. That is all. We shall simply have to cast them off," said Linda Burnell. A strange little laugh flew from her… Read More

Hardback. New. Mordant, challenging and inventive, Katherine Mansfield is one of the twentieth century's most accomplished short-story writers. Selected and introduced by Professor Meg Jensen.

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Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1982. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST NEW ZEALAND EDITION. 4to, pp. 164 + one b/w tailpiece. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Facsimile manuscript endpapers. Pushing to spine ends and top corners, else, clean, tight and tidy. In the original striking yellow and black dust jacket: spine sunned, gentle edgewear, short closed tear to top edge of front panel, mark to rear panel. A pleasing copy of the attractive Lindsay Missen-designed edition of Mansfield's two stories inspired by her New Zealand childhood. In Vincent O'Sullivan's preparation 'The Aloe' and 'Prelude' are "set side by side, with emendations shown, so that the reader may follow the writer as she moves towards the final, polished version".