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Bliss, and Other Stories

"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so dominant in modern fiction", a critic wrote in the Spectator on the publication of this, the second of Mansfield's collections of short stories in book form. There is a wide range of forms and subjects here. Some of these stories are bold, early forays into literary territory that Mansfield's frenemy Virginia Woolf would later triumphantly stake out as her own. The adult male characters tend to be perversely wooden, the central female characters often verge on states of ecstasy or frank neuroticism, while ever present in the background are children, whose experiences are nearly always treated with great tenderness and sympathy. (Summary by Peter Dann)

Year of Publication: 1920Genres: Literary Fiction

Running Time: 06 hours 31 minutes 33 seconds(15 chapters)

Language: EnglishRead by: Peter Dann

#	Chapter Name
	Prelude, parts 1 to 6 Peter Dann	47:41
	Prelude — parts 7 to 12 Peter Dann	49:56
	Je ne Parle pas Français Peter Dann	1:03:27
	Bliss Peter Dann	29:00
	The Wind Blows Peter Dann	10:47
	Psychology Peter Dann	17:05
	Pictures Peter Dann	18:37
	The Man without a Temperament Peter Dann	30:52
	Mr. Reginald Peacock’s Day Peter Dann	19:49
	Sun and Moon Peter Dann	13:19
	Feuille d’Album Peter Dann	13:18
	A Dill Pickle Peter Dann	16:16
	The Little Governess Peter Dann	33:20
	Revelations Peter Dann	15:03
	The Escape Peter Dann	13:03