The Prussian Officer (World Classics, Unabridged)

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories is a collection of early short stories by D. H. Lawrence. The first narrative in the collection is "The Prussian Officer", which tells of a Captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has been left with only his military career, and though he has taken on mistresses throughout his life, he remains single. His young orderly is involved in a relationship with a young woman, and the captain, feeling sexual tension towards the yo...