Love Among The Haystacks And Other Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few writers captured the raw tension between desire and social constraint with the same searing honesty as D. H. Lawrence, and Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories stands as a masterful testament to that gift. Set against the rugged landscapes of rural England, this collection chronicles a series of intimate encounters and emotional confrontations — most notably the title story, in which two brothers competing for the same woman ignite a drama of jealousy, passion, and unexpected tenderness amidst the labour of a summer harvest. Lawrence's prose is at once visceral and lyrical, grounding the deepest human impulses in the textures of earth, labour, and the natural world. Each story in the collection illuminates the class divisions, gender dynamics, and sexual politics of early twentieth-century England, themes that Lawrence would later develop into his most celebrated novels. His unflinching examination of the human heart — its contradictions, its hungers, its quiet rebellions — marks this anthology as essential reading for anyone seeking to understand one of modernism's most provocative and enduring voices. What begins as a simple tale of rural life reveals itself to be something far more charged and unresolvable.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few writers captured the raw tension between desire and social constraint with the same searing honesty as D. H. Lawrence, and Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories stands as a masterful testament to that gift. Set against the rugged landscapes of rural England, this collection chronicles a series of intimate encounters and emotional confrontations — most notably the title story, in which two brothers competing for the same woman ignite a drama of jealousy, passion, and unexpected tenderness amidst the labour of a summer harvest. Lawrence's prose is at once visceral and lyrical, grounding the deepest human impulses in the textures of earth, labour, and the natural world. Each story in the collection illuminates the class divisions, gender dynamics, and sexual politics of early twentieth-century England, themes that Lawrence would later develop into his most celebrated novels. His unflinching examination of the human heart — its contradictions, its hungers, its quiet rebellions — marks this anthology as essential reading for anyone seeking to understand one of modernism's most provocative and enduring voices. What begins as a simple tale of rural life reveals itself to be something far more charged and unresolvable.