The Prussian Officer and other Stories

Resumen del libro

His first published collection, these twelve stories were written between 1907 and 1914, during a crucial period of development for Lawrence from which he emerged a leading figure of the modernist movement. Reaching new levels of feeling and experience, these stories range from the tale of a Prussian officer who drives his orderly towards a bloody reckoning, to the strangely exotic elements of 'A Fragment of Stained Glass', and the divisions within society and conflicts of the heart that form the central themes of 'Daughters of a Vicar'. Interweaving individual lives, their happiness, failures and defeats, with the prfound forces of nature, Lawrence has created stories of remarkable power and sensitivity. This Penguin edition reproduces the newly established Cambridge text, which is based on Lawrence's manuscripts, typescripts and corrected proofs.

Biografía del autor

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930). Escritor inglés, autor de novelas, cuentos, poemas, obras de teatro, ensayos, libros de viaje y crítica literaria. Junto con Frieda Freiin von Richthofen, la mujer con quien vivió prácticamente toda su vida, viajó a Alemania, Austria e Italia, y, tras un corto periodo de vuelta a Inglaterra, inició una especie de peregrinaje por Australia, Italia de nuevo, la antigua Ceilán, Estados Unidos y México, siempre en busca del lugar ideal, hasta que, tuberculoso, terminó sus días en el sur de Francia.