THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY
AND 13 OTHER STORIES
BY D.H. LAWRENCE, 1988
HC
These stories of myth
and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were written and published
in the early 20th Century, along with the composition of Lawrence's
controversial masterpiece “Lady Chatterley's Lover”.
At this time
Lawrence declared himself to be 'really awful sick of writing'; yet here we
find some of his most beautiful, hauntingly melancholy fictions. In struggling
to escape from their thwarted lives and to achieve human 'tenderness', the
characters embody and continue the major preoccupations of Lawrence's work as a
whole.
D. H. Lawrence's
best-known late fictions are presented in this volume, which is dominated by
two powerful novellas, The Virgin and the Gipsy and The Escaped Cock (also
known as The Man Who Died). In the first, a young woman from a restrictive
English rectory discovers further dimensions to life through her contact with a
gipsy; in the second, an unnamed man - in fact Lawrence's vision of Christ - is
resurrected and escapes from his tomb. Both novellas deal with the themes of
escape and sexual awakening.
AUTHOR: D(avid) H(erbert Richards)
Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist and poet, whose works were not
only controversial during his lifetime, but long after his death. The explicit
sexuality of his books, including his most popular work, 'Sons and Lovers',
reached a peak with 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', his final book, that was not
published in an unexpurgated form in the U.K. until after a court case for
obscenity was dismissed, in 1960.
PUBLISHER: Marshall Cavendish
YEAR OF THIS PUBLICATION: 1988
PLACE OF PUBLICATION: London, UK,
PAGINATION: 488 pages
ISBN: 0863076947
FORMAT: Hardcover, burgundy leatherette binding
with gilt-coloured titles to spine and front board: also Pictorial
Cover
EDITION: The Great Writers Library edition
ILLUSTRATED with black
and white portrait of the author to the title page.
ENDPAPERS: Ornately Decorated
DIMENSIONS: 135 mm x 200 mm
Facsimile reproduction
of the 1934 edition
This book also contains
13 other stories by D.H Lawrence see contents scan
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