The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories

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.

ISBN 0521366070   Pages 392 ISBN13 9780521366076 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 600 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Series title Cambridge Edition of the Works of D.H. Lawrence Publication date 28 Mar 2006   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress PR6023.A93 A6 2006   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 823.912   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		The virgin and the gipsy		5
		Things		79
		Rawdon's roof		89
		Mother and daughter		103
		The escaped cock		123
		The blue moccasins		165
App. I		The escaped cock : early versions		183
App. II		The man who was through with the world		237
App. III		The undying man		241
App. IV		The blue moccasins : early versions		245
App. V		The woman who wanted to disappear		251

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

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