Love among the Haystacks and Other Stories (Twentieth Century Classics) - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140182039 ISBN 13: 9780140182033

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1991

Synopsis

This collection contains short stories, first published around the time of Lawrence's death in 1930. The title story returns to Nottinghamshire countryside and tells of the mutual jealousy of the two brothers, both fiercely shy of women, and their initiation one summer's night after the harvesting.

About this title

Book Description:

Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories gathers together all of Lawrence's short stories not collected in the Prussian Officer volume. Each story in this edition appears in a new, authoritative text based on the manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs and early printings.

About the Author:

The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140182039
• ISBN 13: 9780140182033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176