Reviews for St. Mawr & Other Stories

The average rating for St. Mawr & Other Stories based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-09-19 00:00:00 Sorial Mark What the Hell was my library thinking. I remember, when I was younger, complaining to my mother about a stomach ache. No sooner had I uttered the words, than I realised my mistake. There it was - the feeling of impending doom descending on me as my mother reached for the bottle of Castor Oil. Now - I don't know if you've ever had the misfortune of actually tasting Castor Oil, but my understanding was that oil belonged in engines, not in human stomachs. That hasn't changed, for I could never understand why something that made you gag, was supposed to make you feel better. It tastes like - umm - hard to define - perhaps the inside of a long-distance runner's sock? Maybe it was for mother's benefit, for while I had many stomach aches after that, I never complained again. So it was with D.H. Lawrence. I felt that a man of my age SHOULD have read D.H.L. by now. So off to the library I went and found St. Mawr. A horse story! Great! However, I can only liken reading it to being administered with a big spoonful of you-know-what. That is my first and last D.H.L. book...and I shall never complain about him again.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-06-19 00:00:00 P.a.m. Janssen The long novella St. Mawr rather dwarfs the short story, The Man Who Died in this slim volume, but both are D. H. Lawrence at his very finest! St. Mawr continues with Lawrence's primary theme of a frustrated woman looking for a man who is full of life, but in this case her inspiration turns out to be an unmanageable stallion. In The Man Who Died, Christ wakes up in his cave still alive and realizes that he has been given a second chance at life. It is extraordinarily beautiful prose and one of the great works of art in the English language.