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    A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Rocking Horse Winner"
    A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Rocking Horse Winner"
    A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Rocking Horse Winner"
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    A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Rocking Horse Winner"

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    A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Rocking Horse Winner," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535832281
    A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Rocking Horse Winner"

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      A Study Guide for D. H. Lawrence's "Rocking Horse Winner" - Gale

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      The Rocking-Horse Winner

      D. H. Lawrence

      1926

      Introduction

      D. H. Lawrence’s The Rocking-Horse Winner was first published in 1926 in Harper’s Bazaar magazine. It was published again that same year in a collection that was put together by Lady Cynthia Asquith, a friend of Lawrence’s. Some critics have argued that the characters in the story are modeled after Asquith and her autistic son. Lawrence’s works are known for their explorations of human nature through frank discussions of sex, psychology and religion. Lawrence’s later short stories, such as The Rocking-Horse Winner, display a movement toward tabulation and satire as opposed to his earlier short fiction, which reflected more the traditional nineteenth-century English short story— anecdotal, or tales of adventure. The Rocking-Horse Winner is a sardonic tale employing devices of the fairy tale and a mockingly detached tone to moralize on the value of love and the dangers of money. In The Rocking-Horse Winner and other later stories, Lawrence moved beyond the strictures of realism and encompassed a broader range of styles and subjects than in his earlier work. Critics view The Rocking-Horse Winner as an example of Lawrence’s most accomplished writing. Lawrence is considered a modernist, a member of a literary school opposed to the literary conventions of nineteenth-century morality, taste, and tradition. Evident in The Rocking-Horse Winner is Lawrence’s distain for conspicuous consumption, crass materialism, and an emotionally distant style of parenting popularly thought to exist in England during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thus, the story

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