THE
DOVES’ NEST
AND OTHER STORIES
BOOKS OF STORIES BY
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
- BLISS
- THE GARDEN PARTY
- THE DOVES’ NEST
NEW YORK: ALFRED · A · KNOPF
THE
DOVES’ NEST
AND OTHER STORIES
BY KATHERINE
MANSFIELD
“Reverence, that angel of the world.”
NEW YORK
ALFRED . A . KNOPF
MCMXXIII
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.
Published, August, 1923
Second Printing, August, 1923
Third Printing, October, 1923
Fourth Printing, November, 1923
Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York.
Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y.
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
WALTER DE LA MARE
CONTENTS
| Introductory Note | 9 |
| The Doll’s House | 25 |
| Honeymoon | 39 |
| A Cup of Tea | 50 |
| Taking the Veil | 65 |
| The Fly | 74 |
| The Canary | 85 |
| Unfinished Stories: | |
| A Married Man’s Story | 92 |
| The Doves’ Nest | 117 |
| Six Years After | 147 |
| Daphne | 156 |
| Father and the Girls | 166 |