Great Britain: Penguin Books. Very Good. 1980. Reprint. Softcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 0140005137 Paperback The Prussian Officer and Other Stories.His first published collection, these twelve stories were written between 1907 and 1914, during a crucial period of development for Lawrence from which he emerged a leading figure of the modernist movement. Reaching new levels of feeling and experience, these stories range from the tale of a Prussian officer who drives his orderly towards a bloody reckoning, to the strangely exotic elements of 'A Fragment of Stained Glass', and the divisions within society and conflicts of the heart that form the central themes of 'Daughters of a Vicar'. Interweaving individual lives, their happiness, failures and defeats, with the profound forces of nature, Lawrence has created stories of remarkable power and sensitivity. This Penguin edition reproduces the newly established Cambridge text, which is based on Lawrence's manuscripts, typescripts and corrected proofs. .

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The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock , was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover , was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.

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Bookseller's Inventory #: 084137
Title: The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
Author: D h Lawrence
Format/Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0140005137
ISBN 13: 9780140005134
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place of Publication: Great Britain
Date Published: 1980
Keywords: Literature, Fiction, The, Prussian, Officer, and, Other, Stories

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