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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Prussian Officer by David Herbert Lawrence The Prussian Officer is a collection of stories by David Herbert Lawrence. Plot Summary: The first narrative in the collection is "The Prussian Officer", which tells of a Captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has been left with only his military career, and though he has taken on mistresses throughout his life, he remains single. His young orderly is involved in a relationship with a young woman, and the captain, feeling sexual tension towards the young man, prevents the orderly from engaging in the relationship by taking up his evenings. These evenings lead to the captain abusing his orderly and leaving large, painful bruises on his thighs, making it hard for the orderly to walk. Whilst isolated in a forest during manoeuvres, the orderly takes out murderous revenge on the captain, but finds himself in a daze seemingly due both to the pain of the bruises and thirst. The orderly eventually collapses and dies in the hospital shortly there after. The corpses of the two men lay side by side.

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The Prussian Officer

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About England, My England by David Herbert Lawrence England, My England is a collection of stories by David Herbert Lawrence. The stories included in the collection are:England, My England, Tickets Please, The Blind Man, Monkey Nuts, Wintry Peacock, You Touched Me, Samson and Delilah, The Primrose Path, The Horse Dealer's Daughter, Fanny And Annie. The story, Wintry Peacock tells the story of an Englishwoman who has been left with her husband's parents for the duration of the war. Shortly before her husband's return, there is a letter addressed to her husband written in French. She asks a man she sees in passing to translate it, and though the letter details that her husband had an affair with a young woman while away at war, and that this woman had recently delivered a baby by him and plans to come to England, the man translating tells the woman instead that the baby is the young girl's newborn brother and that her parents named the child after the soldier for having protected their family during the war. You Touched Me tells the story of a young boy who is adopted by a family that is without any male children. The mother having died, and one sister having been married off, two sisters remain with the father and raise the boy, though the boy is reluctant to embrace the education and lifestyle offered him and opts to leave for Canada. When war breaks out the boy returns as a young man and spends time with the patriarch of the house who is close to death. The Primrose Path tells of the youngest sibling of a family, considered to be a black sheep of sorts, who leaves his first wife for a young woman who later, according to him, poisons him. He jumps around from England to Australia and back, where he finally settles in as a taxi-cab driver and takes up with a young woman, living with both her and her mother.

England, My England

Mabel Pervin is 27 years old and unmarried. Her father made a living dealing horses, but shortly before his death the business started to take a dive. Upon his demise, Mabel and her three brothers--Joe, Fred Henry, and Malcolm--learned that their family was deeply in debt. So severe was the debt that Oldmeadow, the family's home, had to be put on the market. The four siblings and the horses were likewise expected to leave. While the last of the horses are bring sold off, Fred Henry suggests that Mabel should move in with another sibling, their sister Lucy. Joe advises Mabel on the wisdom of seeking employment as a servent. Mabel grows increasingly more despondent as the brothers discuss their futures. Eventually, the despondency manages to turn into an utter lack of interest in the conversation. Mabel begins to clear the dining table when the young Dr. Jack Ferguson shows up. She lets him know that she is most assuredly not going to impose upon Lucy, and Fred Henry makes it known that he will meet up with Jack later at a local pub.

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