In the title story a young orderly marches through Bavarian heat under a captain whose fascination with him has turned to cruelty. The other stories move to Lawrence’s own Midlands: a vicar’s daughters choosing between status and love, a miner’s wife waiting in Odour of Chrysanthemums, lovers in a rose garden and on a goose-fair night.
Lawrence’s first story collection of 1914, intense and physical, for readers who want him at his most concentrated. Download the free EPUB.