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Something Childish and Other Stories

This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculosis in 1923. It appeared in the US under the title The Little Girl. Most of the stories were written between the publication of her first and second collections, Bliss and Other Stories (1920) and The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922). - Summary by Rob Marland (6 hr 17 min)

Chapters

00 - Introductory Note

2:10

01 - The Tiredness of Rosabel

13:27

02 - How Pearl Button was Kidnapped

9:55

03 - The Journey to Bruges

12:30

04 - A Truthful Adventure

15:14

05 - New Dresses

25:31

06 - The Woman at the Store

24:59

07 - Ole Underwood

11:36

08 - The Little Girl

9:11

09 - Millie

13:46

10 - Pension Séguin

13:00

11 - Violet

15:21

12 - Bains Turcs

14:57

13 - Something Childish but Very Natural

52:06

14 - An Indiscreet Journey

33:30

15 - Spring Pictures

8:48

16 - Late at Night

6:53

17 - Two Tuppenny Ones, Please

6:44

18 - The Black Cap

13:22

19 - A Suburban Fairy Tale

9:52

20 - Carnation

8:15

21 - See-Saw

8:22

22 - This Flower

6:16

23 - The Wrong House

8:59

24 - Sixpence

17:01

25 - Poison

15:11