The Garden Party and other Stories

Intermediate. Speed level 4 (80wpm). 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 18! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are a child from the wrong social class. Set in Europe and NZ, these 9 stories by K. Mansfield dig deep beneath life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair.