The Prussian officer and other other stories - D.H. Lawrence

The sick sadism of a Prussian officer drivers his orderly towards a bloody reckoning...

In this, his first book of stories, Lawrence makes an imaginative leap into the psychological maelstrom of German militarism. The other tales, including the classic Daughters of the Vicar, focus on the more familiar themes of class conflict and the dark forces of the heart. Sensuous, sometimes undisciplined, yet always passionately intense, these stories probe previously uncharted depths of feeling and experience.