The Top 10 Short Stories - D H Lawrence: The top ten Short Stories written by DH Lawrence

Written by D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Elliot Fitzpatrick and David Shaw Parker

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?

The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.

Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.

In his hey-day and his pomp, D H Lawrence was regarded as both a genius and a pornographer. Today his works are powerful reminders of his talents and his unique outlook on life. Lawrence is one of a select few able to bring character and narrative into a pulsating blend of literary fiction.

01 - The Top 10 - D H Lawrence - An Introduction

02 - A Modern Lover

03 - The Rocking Horse Winner

04 - The Old Adam

05 - The Border Line

06 - A Fragment of Stained Glass

07 - Her Turn

08 - Odour of Chrysanthemums

09 - The Fly In The Ointment

10 - The Horse Dealer's Daughter

11 - A Lesson On A Tortise

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803541846

D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11th September 1881 in Eastwood, a small mining village in Nottinghamshire, in the English Midlands. Despite ill health as a child and a comparatively disadvantageous position in society, he became a teacher in 1908, and took up a post in a school in Croydon, south of London. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, and from then until his death he wrote feverishly, producing poetry, novels, essays, plays travel books and short stories, while travelling around the world, settling for periods in Italy, New Mexico and Mexico. He married Frieda Weekley in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in 1930.