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    <body><![CDATA[The story of a &quot;decent&quot; girl, her dysfunctional family and her wild un-consumed love to a gypsy. Though the story starts off well, in terms of analysis of characters and actions. Though the author exaggerates a bit the evilness of the evil, the goodness of the good and the stupidity of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71043163">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[D.H. Lawrence can kiss my ass!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Can someone tell me why DH Lawerence is so well loved as a fiction writer? I am speaking strictly on fiction here as I have not read enough of his poetry to comment on that genre. At this point I've read Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterly's Lover, and now The Virgin and the Gypsy and I just get mad try...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26783787">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>It was alright; not terribly interesting, with a very stereotypical(?) theme of a straight-laced aristocratic rector's daughter kind of maybe halfway falling in love with a gipsy man, but more falling in love with the idea of gipsy-hood, or more importantly, not-rector-hood.  It's dated, but t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78785096">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One I read some time ago, probably a decade past, at my uncle's house over the holidays, hence my noting it here.<br/><br/>The more interesting, general question is: what books have we read, but that we have forgotten entirely? Were they so average?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It seems people either despise Lawrence or really really like it. I reread this after 15 years. It's still good. Spectacular no. It was unpublished at his death and is very short. Gypsy fans, or anyone living on the fringes, will like it.<br/><br/>Best quote: &quot;She did not want to mate with a ...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Virgin and the Gipsy was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence's death in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence had distilled and purified his ideas about sexuality and morality, The Virgin and the Gipsy has become a classic and is one of Lawrence's most electrifying short novels.<br/><br/>Set in a small village in the English countryside, this is the story of a secluded, sensitive rector's daughter who yearns for meaning beyond the life to which she seems doomed. When she meets a handsome young gipsy whose life appears different from hers in every way, she is immediately smitten and yet still paralyzed by her own fear and social convention. Not until a natural catastrophe suddenly, miraculously sweeps away the world as she knew it does a new world of passion open for her. Lawrence's spirit is infused by all his tenderness, passion, and knowledge of the human soul.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A delightful book, beginning to end, vividly rendered and unique in Lawrence's repertoire, although replete with trademark natural catastrophe. Though at moments and really only briefly, the text verged on the trashy romance genre, this book, found in manuscript form in France at the time of the aut...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22744324">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As unfurnished with Heathcliffs as a gypsy camp I spied on.<br/><br/>*shakes fist*]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another classic ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A little gem of a story by the always delightfully debauched Lawrence. He really lets his anger and frustration at the general repression of his sexual urges as dictated by society seethe in this one, one of the last things he wrote I believe. And there's the usual dichotomy between society/authorit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17433602">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[if you're looking for a quick foray into lawrence's style, this is a nice quick read, and moves a little more quickly than Lady Chatterly's Lover, or Women in Love. of course, it also doesn't dive nearly as deep. i really enjoyed lawrence's descriptive passages of the countryside and his ability to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9444472">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Made a self reccomendation to try D.H Lawrence based on something I read in another novel.  Boy was it disappointing.  The book is complete rubbish..and poorly written.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[D.H. Lawrence is the master of psychoanalysis. Though he hated Freud and the likes of him.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>the dialogue is not up to lawrence's best but the character studies are fab<br/><br/>he puts you in the parlour and throws you into the neurotic fretwork of a woman, her bitchy sisters, her impossibly dead mother, her annoying grandmother and her own flawed heart.<br/><br/>love lawre...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book because it reads like a very smart romance novel. the ending is absolutely perfect. it made me remember how ridiculous we are when we're young and bored.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Acts of nature sometimes are overly convenient.]]></body>
    
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