{"product_id":"book-ib3o","title":"The Virgin and the Gypsy","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1926...and published posthumously [without the authors customary revision] in 1930, \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin and the Gypsy\u003c\/i\u003e is a minor masterpiece in short story writing. It provides an excellent introduction to Lawrence’s work, being a succinct distillation of his ideas about sexuality and its ability to transcend class barriers.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYvette and her sister Lucille come back from finishing school in Lausanne with a much broader outlook on life than the inhabitants of the cloistered world to which they return. Their mother left their father for another man leaving a pall of sterility in his newly gathered family: Uncle Fred, Aunt Cissie and Granny – the ‘Mater’ Stifled by the rigidity of life in the rectory in this small village in the East Midlands-a microcosm of established Christian belief the type of which Lawrence despised-Yvette finds herself drawn to a passing gypsy and her ‘budding flower’ is awakened by his interest.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a torrential climax which symbolically sweeps away her old life she comes to fully realise and accept her sexual identity.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e©2010 Assembled Stories (P)2013 Assembled Stories\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Findaway World, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49446399082800,"sku":"BDib3o","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/487211-ib3o-Square.jpg?v=1736717656","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ib3o","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}