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Oxford Bookworms Library Level 5: The Garden Party and Other Stories

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The Garden Party and Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield

22,665 words

初恋とはなんと喜びの多いものであろうか。18歳の少女にとって、初めてのダンスパーティとはなんと気持ちの高ぶるものだろう。だが、また同時に人生はつらく残酷でもある―もしも、若くて経験も浅いまま、ヨーロッパを一人で旅しているとしたら。あるいは違う階級で育った子供だとしたら。あるいは、仕事がないのに未払いの家賃を抱える歌手だとしたら。ヨーロッパとニュージーランドを舞台にしたキャサリン・マンスフィールドのこれら9作品は人生の隠れた部分を掘り起こし、何が人間を幸福にし、また絶望させるのかを我々に見せてくれる。

Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe... or if you are a child from the wrong social class... or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair.

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