Selected Short Stories

Fiction

Author: D.H. Lawrence

This selection of short stories has been made not only to offer a representative and wide-ranging selection of D. H. Lawrence’s shorter fiction, but also to trace a pattern of development in the author’s career. As Brian Finney writes in the Introduction: “To follow the development of his stories from the gauche anecdotes of his early twenties to the sophisticated parodies….Read More

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