The Virgin and the Gypsy
Written by D. H. Lawrence
Narrated by Margaret Hilton
3.5/5
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D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11th September 1881 in Eastwood, a small mining village in Nottinghamshire, in the English Midlands. Despite ill health as a child and a comparatively disadvantageous position in society, he became a teacher in 1908, and took up a post in a school in Croydon, south of London. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, and from then until his death he wrote feverishly, producing poetry, novels, essays, plays travel books and short stories, while travelling around the world, settling for periods in Italy, New Mexico and Mexico. He married Frieda Weekley in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in 1930.
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Reviews for The Virgin and the Gypsy
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Almost nothing happens the entire book. Oppressive like The Great Gatsby feels. Two sisters, father and a fat matriarch propel the little action. Innocence and simplicity are squelched by distrust and self-righteousness. A flood at the end of the book brings in a bit of surrealism which doesn't feel like Lawrence at all.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Aside from perhaps Women in Loveand Lady Chatterly, Lawrence's novels are just not worth the effort unless you're a big fan or a Literature grad student with a need to know the stuff. They're the very embodiment of "loose baggy monsters," with a wealth of potent thematic and symbolic material stewed in an artless and clumsy chowder.His short fiction, however, is elegantly contstructed, often as sharp in form and structure as anything by Fitzgerald, especially when compared to Lawrence's clunky novels. The Virgin and the Gipsy, as a novella, stands between the two forms in length, but fortunately takes its lustre from the former as opposed to the latter. This is the sharpest delineation of Lawrence's ideas about blood and sex and class I've read, and one of the more entertaining. Young Yvette's mother hit the road with her lover, ditching her daughters and their uptight rector father when they were small children. Now coming into womanhood, they live in the rectory with a spinster aunt who needs an orgasm badly, their father, an uncle, and a ninety-something crone granny who represents the repressing curse of civilization. The father is one of Lawrence's favorite types: a guy completely befuddled by Woman and Nature and Desire, whose existence is all surface, who rejects as sordid the urges of the blood and heart. Yvette meets a Gipsy by chance and immediately her blood awakens to the falsity of "love" and "marriage" as understood by the Victorians (funny how Lawrence's plots, when boiled down, can sound so Harlequin Romance-y). This is a longer meditation on the riff Lawrence played in "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter," with many of the same symbols; the one variant, of course, is the interracial attraction. Read it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An incredible multi-layered short story - such an ingenious ending, if you read it carefully.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I devoured this novella. The ending was perfect and my favourite part.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My first D.H.Lawrence book and I am pleasantly surprised. Sometimes when I pick up well rated books by 'Great authors', I worry a little. Because even though I'm supposed to like it, sometimes I don't! And naturally I review it saying that.Anyway, I genuinely enjoyed this little book. Beautiful story telling, great characters all within this tiny little book. It took me a few pages to get absorbed and then I was in. And I don't think I can say much more without giving away too much of it. Its short, its good and it's worth reading.