“Take her away, into the sun,” the doctors say, and a sceptical, nervous wife leaves her husband on a New York pier and sails with her child for Sicily. On the hillside above the sea she begins to lie naked in the sunlight, and something in her wakes that the cold apparatus of civilisation had kept asleep.
One of Lawrence’s most sensuous short stories, a concentrated statement of his creed of the body. Download the free EPUB.