Tickets, Please and Other Stories

by D.H. Lawrence, Et Al, Colin Swatridge

Macmillan Advanced Readers are unabridged texts which offer access to authentic literary English for overseas students at an advanced level. Each volume has a general introduction and concise biographical notes on the authors, and there are glossaries to explain the pronunciation and significance of the more unusual and difficult features of the text.

The stories in this volume have been taken from works by
Stephen Crane
Bill Naughton
Roald Dahl
Guy de Maupassant
'Saki'
Doris Lessing
and D. H. Lawrence

The upturned face / Stephen Crane
Spit Nolan / Bill Naughton
The landlady / Roald Dahl
Vendetta / Guy de Maupassant
The interlopers / 'Saki' (H.H. Munro)
A sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing
Tickets, please / D.H. Lawrence

80 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1986

About the author

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct.

Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. He is now generally valued as a visionary thinker and a significant representative of modernism in English literature.
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