SELECTED SHORT STORIES DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS

Author: D.H. Lawrence
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Publication Date: 1993-09-01
Features: ""Lockwood has created a compelling teaching tool. [He] has assembled an error-free, effective study edition... an attractive alternative to the complete short stories of D.H. Lawrence."" D.H. Lawrence Review -- This text refers to an out-of-print or unavailable edition of this title. Seven of the best Lawrence stories, each turning on some facet of sexual feeling, attitude or convention. ""The Prussian Officer"" focuses on an aristocratic captain's homoerotic obsession for his young orderly. ""The Shadow in the Rose Garden"" and ""The White Stocking"" deal with sexual jealousy. ""Daughters of the Vicar"" brilliantly describes two exceedingly class-conscious mating rituals. ""The Christening,"" ""Second Best"" and ""Ode to Chrysanthemums"" etch memorable portraits of a family's shame at an illegitimate birth, a country courtship and a brutal marriage abbreviated by death. Note.