The Fox, The Captain’s Doll, The Ladybird

The Fox, The Captain’s Doll, The Ladybird

Penguin Classics

These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence’s brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships – both tender and cruel – and the devastating results of war. In The Fox, two young women living on a small farm during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. As a fox preys on their poultry, a human predator has the women in his sights. The Captain’s Doll explores the complex relationship between a German countess and a married Scottish soldier in occupied Germany, while in The Ladybird a wounded prisoner of war has a disturbing influence on the Englishwoman who visits him in hospital.

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823.912

D. H. Lawrence, Helen Dunmore, Dieter Miehl, David Ellis, David Ellis – Penguin Classics