The Prussian Officer and Other Stories

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, Lawrence's firstcollection of short stories, was published in England in 1914 andin the USA in 1916. It contains some of the greatest stories heever wrote: 'Odour of Chrysanthemums', 'Daughters of the Vicar','The Prussian Officer', and 'The White Stocking', with settingsranging from the mining community of Eastwood to Germany before theFirst World War. The text of this new edition is based onLawrence's manu*s, type*s and corrected proofs, and isthe first to remove the corruptions introduced by copyists, typistsand printers. The introduction sets out the history of each storyand of the collection itself. There is a textual apparatusrecording variant readings and full notes explain historicalreferences 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 theVicar'.