D.H. Lawrence's Short Stories Thread

[Janine]

Thank you, Janine, I did see it . And I'll start reading the story today hopefully.

Why you are welcome,Nossa,...glad to see you here and able to participate. I always love to read your posts. I have missed you lately around the forum; maybe we have just been on different threads. Enjoy your reading!

I hope you like as much as I did, Nossa. I found it delightful in several different ways. I get into why more once the discussion begins.

MissScarlett, I found it delightful variously, as well; will be interested in reading your comments. I can't wait now for the discussion. It's always fun; we have been idle here (this thread) for too long. It will be good to get back to discussing Lawrence.

...and Quark, Chekhov too, in the near furture!

[Janine]

I propose putting this discussion off one day; I am not feeling well today; also, I need to go to an important meeting tonight. It is raining here and pretty miserable. Tomorrow/tomorrow evening would be best for me. I will be better prepared. Hope you understand and don't mind the delay. It really can't be helped. Thanks all!

[Virgil]

Well, what do we do now that MissS is gone? I still can't find my edition and putting this off a few days would be a nice idea.

[Janine]

Well, what do we do now that MissS is gone? I still can't find my edition and putting this off a few days would be a nice idea.

Ok, let's do that. Nossa emailed me that she could not do this story this month either. I am thrown off-beat myself; so lets plan on starting by the weekend. I will post something Friday night. Sorry everyone for the delay. Virgil, you seem to lose everything! Can't you just read the story from the Guttenburg site online? When I post sections of text, you can better review them and comment.

[BienvenuJDC]

Maybe I can catch up and jump in here...I've wanted to read something to discuss...
Where are you guys at...and maybe this week I can start reading...

[Janine]

Maybe I can catch up and jump in here...I've wanted to read something to discuss...
Where are you guys at...and maybe this week I can start reading...

That would be great, Bienvenu, we are not too far; we keep pushing this up a bit; as you probably noticed above. I announced the story twice now; I believe a page or two back. You will find it easily, if you look for the composite picture and the lettering, which is in bold faced type, accompanied by a brief summary background. You can find the full text online; not a long short story at all. The Guttenburg site is also listed in this thread, probably a page back. Any problems locating these, let me know. Our Lawrence discussions are always interesting, learning experiences and fun; also we need participants this month, so it's nice to have you join in. We will probably start discussion on Friday. I will post some part of the first section Friday so we can get started.

[jinjang]

Just out of curiosity, seeing it soon to be discussed here, I read the short story yesterday night. I will join you when you all are ready.

[Janine]

Just out of curiosity, seeing it soon to be discussed here, I read the short story yesterday night. I will join you when you all are ready.

Wonderful; we like to hear that new members will join in this discussion group. I look forward to it. It should start on Friday night. I hope to post some text to get us all started, discussing first impressions, key words/phrases, symbolism, etc. See you then....and....

Welcome to the forum jinjang! I like your user name; it's interesting.

[BienvenuJDC]

I've got the story downloaded...and I started to read it...but that's impossible with two little around and mommy at work. So I'm gonna take 1/2 an hour now... I'm looking forward to talking about it.

[Quark]

It's going to be a couple of weeks before I can join in, but once the semester ends here I'll read the story. Which is it, by the way?

[Janine]

I've got the story downloaded...and I started to read it...but that's impossible with two little around and mommy at work. So I'm gonna take 1/2 an hour now... I'm looking forward to talking about it.

Good to hear, Bienvenu, I do my reading between things, too, like laundry and watching movies; I am chronic movie watcher. I actually, read this story 3 times by now. It will be easy to follow, since we don't jump ahead; we take it step by step, always works out well that way.

It's going to be a couple of weeks before I can join in, but once the semester ends here I'll read the story. Which is it, by the way?

Quark, oh you and Virgil are something else this month. He says he still can't locate his books....*groan*...I told him to just read it from online. It's not a difficult story this time. It reads pretty quickly. I will post the introduction page one more time for all you newbies and oldbies! haha

[Janine]

Our next short story will be:

Wintry Peacock



Literary connection

Two entries from Wikipedia

In late 1917, after constant harassment by the military authorities, Lawrence was forced to leave Cornwall at three days' notice under the terms of the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA). This persecution was later described in an autobiographical chapter of his Australian novel Kangaroo, published in 1923. He spent some months in early 1918 in the small, rural village of Hermitage near Newbury, Berkshire. He then lived for just under a year (mid-1918 to early 1919) at Mountain Cottage, Middleton-by-Wirksworth, Derbyshire, where he wrote one of his most poetic short stories, The Wintry Peacock. Until 1919 he was compelled by poverty to shift from address to address and barely survived a severe attack of influenza.

One of D. H. Lawrence's houses (Mountain Cottage), in which he lived
with Frieda in 1918-19, stands below the B5023 road on the outskirts of
Middleton-by-Wirksworth, approximately 1.5 mile NW of Wirksworth. Lawrence also reputedly spent a lot of time at Woodland Cottage on the opposite side of New Road. While staying in Middleton in the bitter winter of 1918-19, Lawrence wrote the short story A Wintry Peacock (published 1921).

You can find the full text here:
http://gutenberg.net.au/pages/lawren...l#shortstories

I had to hunt around the site for it since one place the short stories in limited to about 8. This other page has all of them. I think "Wintery Peacock" is in about the 3rd or 4th collection down.

Edit: if you go to this page there are various ways to download the file or copy the text. I tried the second HTML (zip) download and it worked perfectly.

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22477

Note: We will start this discussing this story the Friday night - the 24th. You can all start reading it; maybe jot down some notes or underline in your text. (see previous posts for links to the online text); but please, hold off posting, until all are gathered back here together. Thanks! I think you will all enjoy the irony and pastoral, poetic writing in this story. I found it very amusing. As they say "lost in translation.". You will know what I mean after reading this story.

[Virgil]

I finally found my book. I will probably read it over the weekend.

[BienvenuJDC]

I finally found my book. I will probably read it over the weekend.

VIRGIL!!??!!?? Over the weekend??? ...I read it today...

It wasn't that long. Did I read the right thing? I copied it into a word document so that I could format it for easier reading. The word count was 5,818 words. Does this sound like it?

SPOILER ALERT (Do not read if you haven't read it and want to be surprised)
Man reads letter...translates alternate version...becomes a hero...and the story ends with a conversation between two men...

Is that the story in its entirety?

I'll read it again tomorrow...

[Dark Muse]

SPOILER ALERT (Do not read if you haven't read it and want to be surprised)
Man reads letter...translates alternate version...becomes a hero...and the story ends with a conversation between two men...

Is that the story in its entirety?

I'll read it again tomorrow...

Well the hero part is questionable but yeah that pretty much wraps the story up in a nutshell, you did not miss anything.