DH Lawrence Author:The Virgin and the Gipsy The Virgin and the Gipsy was discovered in France after D.H. Lawrence's death in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence has distilled and purified his ideas about sexuality and morality. The Virgin and the Gipsy has become a classic and is one of Lawrences's most electrifying short noels. Set in a small village in the En... more »glish countryside, this is the story of a secluded, sensitive rector's daughter who years for meaning beyond the life to which she seems doomed. When she meets a handsome young gipsy whose fie seems difference from hers in every way, she is immediately smitten, and yet still paralyzed by her own rear and social convention. NOt until a natural catastrophe suddenly, miraculously sweeps away the world as she knew it does a new work of passion open for her. Lawrence?s poignant depiction of live and growth of her spirit is infused by all his tenderness, passion and knowledge of the human soul.« less