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A Birthday
- Author
- Katherine Mansfield
- Narrator
- Carl Mason
- Publisher
- Lauscher Audiobooks
- Publish Date
- 12 November 2025
- Run Time
- 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Katherine Mansfield
- Narrator
- Carl Mason
- Duration
- 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 November 2025
- ISBN
- 9783711944092
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Lauscher Audiobooks
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
In A Birthday by Katherine Mansfield we have the theme of responsibility, selfishness, gender roles, appearance, suffering and paralysis. Taken from her In a German Pension collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Mansfield may be exploring the theme of responsibility. Andreas if anything thinks only of himself. True he goes to fetch Doctor Erb but apart from this Andreas takes no responsibility for the condition that Anna may be in.
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