D. H. Lawrence's best-known late fictions are presented in this volume, which is dominated by two powerful novellas, The Virgin and the Gipsy and The Escaped Cock (also known as The Man Who Died). In the first, a young woman from a restrictive English rectory discovers further dimensions to life through her contact with a gipsy; in the second, an unnamed man - in fact Lawrence's vision of Christ - is resurrected and escapes from his tomb. Both novellas deal with the themes of escape and sexual awakening, which are echoed in the four short stories and three fragments also collected here. This edition restores Lawrence's final texts, before the changes introduced by censorship, mistakes in transmission and various other forms of interference, with variants recorded. The introduction traces the history of the stories, while the notes offer help with allusions, contexts and other points of potential difficulty or interest.

A Cambridge edition of Lawrence's best-known late fictions, The Virgin and the Gipsy and The Escaped Cock.

About the Author
Michael Herbert is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. Bethan Jones is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull. Lindeth Vasey is Copyeditorial Manager at Penguin.

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'... one of Lawrence's most powerful late tales ...' The Use of English



Book Information
ISBN 9780521366076
Author D. H. Lawrence
Format Hardback
Page Count 394
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 600g
Dimensions(mm) 224mm * 145mm * 26mm