The Woman Who Rode Away & Other Stories: Two Blue Birds;Sun;the Woman Who Rode Away;Smile;the Border Line;Jimmy & the Desperate Woman;the Last . Lady (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Jansohn, Christa

ISBN 10: 0140188061 / ISBN 13: 9780140188066

Published by Penguin Classics, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Woman Who Rode Away & Other Stories: Two Blue Birds;Sun;the Woman Who Rode Away;Smile;the Border Line;Jimmy & the Desperate Woman;the Last . Lady (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140188061
• ISBN 13: 9780140188066
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 270 grams

About this title

Synopsis

The 13 stories collected here, written between 1924 and 1928, draw on D.H. Lawrence's experiences in New Mexico, Mexico, Italy, Germany, and England, and feature thinly disguised, often malicious, portraits of friends and acquaintances. The title story recounts the flight of a woman from her home to seek a more spiritual existence. These stories demonstrate the extraordinary range of Lawrence's style.

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.