The Prussian Officer and Other Stories Cambridge Lawrence Edition

by Lawrence, D. H.; Worthen, John; Finney, Brian; Finney, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780140187809
• ISBN10: 0140187804
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

A collection of twelve short stories written by Lawrence between the years of 1907 and 1914.

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

Note on the Penguin Lawrence Edition	vi
Chronology	vii
Introduction	xiii
Note on the Texts	xxxiv
Advisory Editor's Note	xxxvii
THE PRUSSIAN OFFICER AND OTHER STORIES
The Prussian Officer [Honour and Arms]	1	(21)
The Thorn in the Flesh	22	(18)
Daughters of the Vicar	40	(48)
A Fragment of Stained Glass	88	(10)
The Shades of Spring	98	(15)
Second-Best	113	(8)
The Shadow in the Rose Garden	121	(12)
Goose Fair	133	(10)
The White Stocking	143	(22)
A Sick Collier	165	(7)
The Christening	172	(9)
Odour of Chrysanthemums	181	(20)
Appendix I: `Odour of Chrysanthemums' fragment	201	(6)
Appendix II: `Two Marriages'	207	(40)
Explanatory Notes	247	(7)
Pounds, Shillings and Pence	254	(1)
Further Reading	255