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Jun 02, 1992 | ISBN 9780679740773 Buy
Sep 21, 2011 | ISBN 9780307806475 Buy
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Jun 02, 1992 | ISBN 9780679740773
Sep 21, 2011 | ISBN 9780307806475
The Virgin and the Gipsy was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence’s death in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence had distilled and purified his ideas about sexuality and morality, The Virgin and the Gipsy has become a classic and is one of Lawrence’s most electrifying short novels.Set in a small village in the English countryside, this is the story of a secluded, sensitive rector’s daughter who yearns for meaning beyond the life to which she seems doomed. When she meets a handsome young gipsy whose life appears different from hers in every way, she is immediately smitten and yet still paralyzed by her own fear and social convention. Not until a natural catastrophe suddenly, miraculously sweeps away the world as she knew it does a new world of passion open for her. Lawrence’s spirit is infused by all his tenderness, passion, and knowledge of the human soul.
D. H. Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature, was born on September 11, 1885, in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to… More about D.H. Lawrence
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