The Prussian Officer and Other Stories

By: H. Lawrence, D.

A young orderly and his Prussian officer are locked within a military hierarchy that turns private tension into destructive pressure. Their conflict opens a collection of twelve realist short stories in which authority reaches beyond commands and institutions, shaping the body, the emotions and the boundaries of individual identity. Discipline, shame and sexual desire remain inseparable from questions of rank, dependence and self-determination. Beyond the barracks, the stories enter mining villages, industrial districts, rural farms, woodland and seaside communities, following people whose intimate lives are constrained by labour and social position. Miners, clergy, workers, spouses and family members confront poverty, illness, religious authority and domestic obligation. Marriage and family conflict are examined alongside the need for emotional and physical separateness, while memory and death sharpen the struggle between social respectability and private experience. Across cottages, vicarages and claustrophobic homes, these psychologically focused narratives reveal how class and work can enter the most personal relationships. The varied settings and social roles give each story its own pressure, yet recurring concerns bind the collection together: repression, bodily experience, desire and the difficult assertion of an independent self. Rather than separating public duty from private feeling, the stories place them in continual conflict, creating literary short fiction attentive to both social structures and intimate consequences. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9377783151
• ISBN13: 9789377783150
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"