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Synopsis The present selection includes some very fine short stories by D.H. Lawrence. The opening piece of the collection, The Rocking Horse Winner, has a shocking lesson to teach through an ambitious young boy's flight of fancy; the symbolic use of the rocking horse makes it a superbly impressive story. Glad Ghosts is yet another short story representing Lawrence's treatment of supernatural. The Woman Who Rode Away is the grim tale of a woman from the civilized world who submits herself to the primitive forces represented by a certain tribe and their mystical rituals. The Last Laugh Toys with occultism. Smile is another sample of the gruesome brand in which smile sits differently on the lips of the living and the dead, with the same uncanny effect. Sun, in which a woman derives vitality form the Sicilian sun for herself and her son, reminds one of the cult of sun-worship, though in a different hue. Two Blue Birds treats a delicate and sensitive theme. A Modern Lover is the story of a man who deceives his beloved and later returns to her to find her engaged to another man. These stories carry the stamp of Lawrence's talent as a master story teller.