Selected Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence (Modern Library)

Selected Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence (Modern Library) by D.H. Lawrence. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780679603276.

James Wood has selected fourteen of D. H. Lawrences stories that demonstrate clearly the breadth of Lawrences achievement in the shorter form. The stories are "Strike-Pay," "Love Among the Haystacks," "The Prussian Officer," "The Thorn in the Flesh," "A Fragment of Stained Glass," "Odour of Chrysanthemums," "England, My England," "The Blind Man," "The Fox," "St. Mawr," "The Woman Who Rode Away," "The Border Line," "The Man Who Loved Islands," and "The Man Who Died." In a long introductory essay, "The Success of Failure: D. H. Lawrences Short Stories," written especially for this Modern Library edition, Wood discusses Lawrences supremacy as a religious novelist who is also a modern writer with profound Romantic tendencies.