Selected Stories (Lawrence, D. H.)

by Lawrence, D. H.; Welsh, Louise; Wilson, Sue

• ISBN13: 9780141441658
• ISBN10: 0141441658
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-26
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten stories shows the variety of Lawrence's achievement. the works develop from early realism towards myth and fairy tale, murder and ghost stories.

Author Biography

The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.

Table of Contents

Love among the haystacks	p. 3
The miner at home	p. 43
The white stocking	p. 49
Odour of Chrysanthemums	p. 74
New eve and old Adam	p. 96
Vin Ordinaire	p. 122
The Prussian officer [honour and arms]	p. 141
England, my England	p. 165
The horse-dealer's daughter	p. 181
The blind man	p. 199
Adolf	p. 220
The last straw [Fanny and Annie]	p. 229
Sun	p. 245
The rocking-horse winner	p. 269
The man who loved islands	p. 286
Things	p. 313
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