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Ten D.H. Lawrence Short Stories (Longman Literature)

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When I was young, I went through a serious phase of discovering D.H. Lawrence. By young, I mean 12 or 13. I bought all the books at a second hand store close to our local SUNY. At that age, his novels were... I guess affecting is the right word.

I tried to come back to Lady Chatterly's Lover in my twenties, and was so put off that I couldn't read further. I wrote Lawrence off as a writer I was glad I had read, but had no desire to read again.

Lately, I was discussing Lawrence with a friend. He said I should give Lawrence another chance, but this time should focus on his short stories, not on his novels.

This is possibly true. But not on the strength of this particular collection. I'm really racking my brain to find something positive to say about this book, but I'm failing. These stories veered for me between unfinished and offensive-- generally offensive in the way he discusses gender issues, although he branches out into being racially offensive from time to time. The usual "real women are in touch with the earth and their sexuality" crap.

I think I may just give up on Lawrence.

This book contains:

The Wilful Woman
The Princess
The Overtone
The Flying Fish
Sun
Mercury
The Man Who Was Through with the World
A Dream of Life
The Undying Man
The Blue Moccasins
Things
Mother and Daughter