England, My England

A frog gives a tiny, bellowing scream as a snake carries it off beneath the window of Egbert and Winifred’s ancient cottage. Outside, Egbert is trying—and failing—to make a garden path run straight.

On the edge of a Hampshire common, their secluded cottage seems to belong to an older, wilder England. Egbert and Winifred once believed their young marriage could keep its first blaze of passion alive; now he works under the children’s voices, troubled by a life that feels less like the dream he chose. In this 1922 collection, D. H. Lawrence’s stories follow desire, duty and betrayal through homes unsettled by the years around the First World War. How long can Egbert and Winifred remain caught in their private world?

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