The Prussian Officer and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By D. H. Lawrence

Published in 1914, this collection contains some of Lawrence's best-known short fiction, including "The Prussian Officer," "The Thorn in the Flesh," "Daughters of the Vicar," and "Odour of Chrysanthemums," a moving and tragic character study of a young woman married to an abusive coalminer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Feb 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411437685

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.