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.
第一次墜入愛河的感覺多美好!當您是個十八歲的少女第一次受邀去跳舞多興奮啊!但現是總是殘酷的。如果您年輕、沒經驗、要自己獨自橫跨歐洲,又或是您是個生錯社會階層的小孩,還是是個沒工作、繳房租的期限將近的歌手?故事背景設定在歐洲和紐西蘭,這九個由凱薩琳曼斯菲爾德撰寫的故事透露人類的快樂和絕望。