The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories.

Published by Martin Secker, London, 1928

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First edition of D.H. Lawrence's collection of late short stories, led by the haunting title story of an American woman who rides away from her marriage in Mexico in search of a remote Indian people, only to be taken by them as a ritual sacrifice. Octavo, bound in three-quarter dark raspberry oasis over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands. In near fine condition. The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories (1928) gathers the short fiction D.H. Lawrence wrote in the mid-1920s, including the title story, set in Mexico, in which a restless American wife rides away from her husband's silver mine in search of a remote Indian people and is taken by them for a ritual sacrifice, alongside stories such as "Glad Ghosts," "Sun," "In Love," and "None of That." Drawing on Lawrence's years in New Mexico and Mexico, the collection explores his abiding themes of desire, the primitive, and the failures of modern civilization. The English edition omitted "The Man Who Loved Islands," which Compton Mackenzie believed caricatured him, though the story appeared in the American edition published by Knopf the same year. The author of Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence remains one of the most important and controversial English writers of the twentieth century.

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Title
The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories.
Author
Lawrence, D.H
Publisher
Martin Secker, London
Publication year
1928
Binding
Hardcover
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1st Edition
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