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 "Odour of Chrysanthemums" etch memorable portraits of a family’s shame at an illegitimate birth, a country courtship, and a brutish marriage abbreviated by death. Note.
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Book Description:
Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. Selected Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence are edited by Michael Lockwood, University of Reading.
Review:
"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
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- PublisherDover Publications
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0486277941
- ISBN 13 9780486277943
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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