'The Fox', 'The Captain's Doll' and 'The Ladybird' - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1495326160 ISBN 13: 9781495326165

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

These three famous novellas display D. H. Lawrence's intelligent and sensitive evocation of human relationships - both tender and cruel - and the destructive effects of war. In ‘˜The Fox’, two young women living on a small farm during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. As a fox preys on their poultry, a human predator plans to prey on the women. ‘The Captain's Doll’ explores the complex and intimate relationship between a German countess and a married Scottish soldier in occupied Germany, while in ‘The Ladybird’ a wounded German prisoner of war has a disturbing and profound influence on the Englishwoman who visits him in hospital.

About this title

Book Description:

D. H. Lawrence wrote these three 'novelettes' between November 1920 and December 1921. Dieter Mehl gives all three composition histories including Lawrence's wish to have them published together. There is also an appendix on the models for the two main characters and the setting of 'The Fox'.

About the Author:

D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist, story writer, critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. Among his works are The White Peacock(1911), Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915) and Lady Chatterly's Lover, first published privately in Florence in 1928.

Helen Dunmore is a novelist, poet, short story and children's writer. Her published work includes eight collections of poetry, eight novels and two collections of short stories. In her first novel, Zennor in Darkness, she wrote about D H Lawrence's stay in Zennor during the First World War. A Spell of Winter won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction. The Siege was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Fiction and the Orange Prize for Fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1495326160
• ISBN 13: 9781495326165
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Jonson Will