The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories

by D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert, Bethan Jones, Lindeth Vasey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521366076
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/28/2006
Series:	The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	5.71(w) x 8.82(h) x 1.02(d)

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.

Date of Birth:

September 11, 1885

Date of Death:

March 2, 1930

Place of Birth:

Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England

Place of Death:

Vence, France

Education:

Nottingham University College, teacher training certificate, 1908

Table of Contents

General editor's preface; Chronology; Introduction; The Virgin and the Gipsy; 'Things'; 'Rawdon's Roof'; 'Mother and Daughter'; The Escaped Cock; 'The Blue Moccasins'; Appendix I: The Escaped Cock: early versions; Appendix II: 'The Man Who Was Through with the World'; Appendix III: 'The Undying Man'; Appendix IV: 'The Blue Moccasins': early versions; Appendix V: 'The Woman Who Wanted to Disappear'; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Note on pounds, shillings and pence.

Editorial Reviews

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

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