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Lawrence, D. H. - Stefania Michelucci (essay date 2002)

Stefania Michelucci (essay date 2002)

SOURCE: Michelucci, Stefania. “The Pact with the Genius Loci: The Prussian Officer.” In Space and Place in the Works of D. H. Lawrence, translated by Jill Franks, pp. 18-23. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2002.

[In the following essay, Michelucci traces Lawrence's development as a short story writer through an analysis of the pieces in The Prussian Officer, and Other Stories and contrasts the differences between these stories and his novel The White Peacock.]

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south,
                                                  but whenever a man fronts a fact. …

—Henry David Thoreau

The stories in The Prussian Officer [The Prussian Officer, and Other Stories] surround, so to speak, Lawrence's two earliest novels, being written in a wide span of time...

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