Four Short Novels

By D.H. Lawrence and D. H.;Herbert Lawrence

Book Overview

Mass Market paperback. $ short novels in one book. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140037268
• ISBN13: 9780140037265
• Release Date: November 1976
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Four stories Contains the themes which most preoccupied Lawerence

Four Short Novels Love among the haystacks The Fox, The Captain's Doll, and The Ladybird Love Among the Haystacks introduces us to the character of the wild and disobedient German governess mostly referred to as `the Fräulein', whose passion and rarity drive two brothers to distraction with somewhat, disastrous consequences. The other three novellas explore human relationships and the devastating results of war. In The Fox, a predator targets two young women living on a small farm during the First World War. The Captain's Doll explores the complex relationship between a German countess and a married Scottish soldier in occupied Germany. In The Ladybird, a wounded prisoner of war has a disturbing influence on the Englishwoman who visits him in the hospital. Pensive and insightful, D. H. Lawrence brought to his work a frankness that had been missing from early 20th-century fiction. Though novels such as Lady Chatterly's Lover, Sons and Lovers, and others incited controversy and censorship for their sexual content, Lawrence was not being prurient; he was simply trying to describe the world around him, in both his fiction and his many letters and essays. THIS SMALL VOLUME, IS A COMPACT SAMPLING OF THE NOTED AUTHOR'S WORK .MY ONLY WARNING IS THAT YOU WILL BE HUNGRY FOR MORE.