The Virgin and the Gipsy: And Other Stories

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.

Author: D. H. Lawrence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/28/2006
Pages: 394
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.96w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780521366076

About the Author
Jones, Bethan: - Bethan Jones is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull.Vasey, Lindeth: - Lindeth Vasey is Copyeditorial Manager at Penguin.

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