Books with title In a German Pension

In a German Pension 1. GERMANS AT MEAT Bread soup was placed upon the table. “Ah,” said the Herr Rat, leaning upon the table as he peered into the tureen, “that is what I need. My ‘magen’ has not been in order for several days. Bread soup, and just the right consistency. I am a good cook myself”—he turned to me. “How interesting,” I said, attempting to infuse just the right amount of enthusiasm into my voice. “Oh yes—when one is not married it is necessary. As for me, I have had all I wanted from women without marriage.” He tucked his napkin into his collar and blew upon his soup as he spoke. “Now at nine o’clock I make myself an English breakfast, but not much. Four slices of bread, two eggs, two slices of cold ham, one plate of soup, two cups of tea—that is nothing to you.”

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{Size: 14.34 x 22.59 cms} Lang: - English, Pages 253. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back . This book is Printed in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Complete Title: In a German pension [Hardcover]. Author: Katherine Mansfield

In a German Pension is a 1911 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield; her first published collection. For these pension stories, Mansfield took inspiration from her own stay as a ‘cure guest’ in Villa Pension Müller at a Bavarian spa of Bad Wörishofen in 1909, send off there by her mother to muffle her extramarital pregnancy which would end in a miscarriage. The stories analyse the German middle class and their habits, prejudices and loves. They also look at the more difficult lives of the servants. Mansfield was in the vanguard of the modernist movement acquainted with Virginia Woolf and D H Lawrence and the like.There is a focus on the role of women as wives, mothers, lovers, put upon servants (the wives as well as the servants) and there is a sense of injustice and even rage underneath. Some are very funny, some tragic. One in particular has a jaw dropping ending (The Child-who-was-tired)that stays with you , the horror of it gradually seeping in.Mansfield was influenced by Chekov and became an increasingly good short story writer brfore her early death. Mansfield referred to these stories as immature as she developed her craft; but they are fresh, sharply humourous and do feel very modern. "Germans at Meat" - an English woman is at a German pension where she and her dinner companions talk about the possibility of war breaking out "The Baron" - an unnamed narrator observes a solitary baron"The sister of the Baroness" - an English lady is staying in a German pension where people are expecting the arrival of a daughter of a baroness and her aunt "Frau Fischer" - Frau Fischer comes to the pension for the 'cure' and begins to tell our unnamed English lady about life and love, the way Germans see them "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding" - Frau and Herr Brechenmacher go to a wedding "The Modern Soul" - an English Fräulein befriends a buffoonish professor, a widow and her actress daughter while staying at a pension "At “Lehmann’s”" - Sabina works in the Lehmann’s home and coffee shop when she meets the Young Man "The Luft Bad" - a (English?) woman visits a bath house "A Birthday" - Andreas goes to fetch a doctor because his wife has gone into labor "The Child-Who-Was-Tired" - a child servant in the boarding house takes care of the masters and her children "The Advanced Lady" - the young lady from England, Violet, is the subject of the other bath house patrons' gossip"The Swing of the Pendulum" - a young woman is awaiting her sweetheart when another man enters the room "A Blaze" - a married woman has a dispute with the unmarried man she's been flirting with