The Prussian Officer and Other Stories

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories contains some of the greatest stories Lawrence ever wrote.

D. H. Lawrence (Author), John Worthen (Edited by)

9780521289856, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 October 1987

360 pages, 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.46 kg

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, Lawrence's first collection of short stories, was published in England in 1914 and in the USA in 1916. It contains some of the greatest stories he ever wrote: 'Odour of Chrysanthemums', 'Daughters of the Vicar', 'The Prussian Officer', and 'The White Stocking', with settings ranging from the mining community of Eastwood to Germany before the First World War. The text of this new edition is based on Lawrence's manuscripts, typescripts and corrected proofs, and is the first to remove the corruptions introduced by copyists, typists and printers. The introduction sets out the history of each story and of the collection itself. There is a textual apparatus recording variant readings and full notes explain historical references and other allusions, dialect forms and foreign words. Two important appendixes print the earliest surviving fragment of 'Odour of Chrysanthemums' and the 1911 version of 'Daughters of the Vicar'.

General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Cue-titles
Introduction
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
Appendix I
Appendix II
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]