The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories
by D. H. Lawrence
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The thirteen short stories in this volume were written between 1924 and 1928, and are set in Europe and America. Eleven were collected in The Woman Who Rode Away (1928), though 'The Man Who Loved Islands' appeared in the American edition only and the other two in The Lovely Lady (1933). An unpublished fragment 'A Pure Witch' is also included here. The stories reflect Lawrence's experiences in New Mexico, Mexico, Italy, Germany and England in the post-war period. Many were considerably show more revised by Lawrence after he first wrote them; some were completely rewritten and subsequently published in different versions. The editors give composition histories and discuss publication difficulties, including Compton Mackenzie's objections to 'The Man Who Loved Islands'. Appendices record manuscript revisions for three stories and give complete, unpublished early versions of four. Explanatory notes elucidate literary allusions and give topographical and biographical information. show lessTags
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This is a collection of short stories by the English master. For me, there was too many ghosts and too much spiritualism in several of the stories. "The Woman Who Rode Away" was too far fetched for me. For a woman to ride into the wilds of Mexico searching for an Indian tribe stretched my imagination. The last story, "The Man Who Loved Islands", describes a man suffering from some form of mental illness who eventually cuts himself off from all people on his last island and Mother Nature does him with huge snow falls.
Twelve high standard Lawrence stories. I'm getting so elderly that I forget them as soon as they've been read. The introduction by Richard Aldington is a help.
Classic lawrence short stories. The woman who road away reads like an ealy draft for the wonderful Plummed Serpent
Indeholder "Den prøjsiske Officer", "Tornen i Kødet", "Præstens Døtre", "Næstbedst", "Den hvide Strømpe", "Daaben", "Duft af Chrisantemum", "Ræven", "Maa jeg se Deres Billetter?", "Den blinde Mand", "Paafugl i Sne", "Du rørte ved mig", "Samson og Dalila", "'Lystens blomsterstrøede Vej'", "To blaa Fugle", "De blaa Mokkasiner", "Gyngehesten", "Glade Genfærd", "Smil", "Ikke saadan noget", "Kvinden, som red bort".
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D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885. His father was a coal miner and Lawrence grew up in a mining town in England. He always hated the mines, however, and frequently used them in his writing to represent both darkness and industrialism, which he despised because he felt it was scarring the English countryside. Lawrence show more attended high school and college in Nottingham and, after graduation, became a school teacher in Croyden in 1908. Although his first two novels had been unsuccessful, he turned to writing full time when a serious illness forced him to stop teaching. Lawrence spent much of his adult life abroad in Europe, particularly Italy, where he wrote some of his most significant and most controversial novels, including Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterly's Lover. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, who had left her first husband and her children to live with him, spent several years touring Europe and also lived in New Mexico for a time. Lawrence had been a frail child, and he suffered much of his life from tuberculosis. Eventually, he retired to a sanitorium in Nice, France. He died in France in 1930, at age 44. In his relatively short life, he produced more than 50 volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel journals, and letters, in addition to the novels for which he is best known. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Die Frau, die davon ritt • Erzählungen
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