The Captain's Doll

Name: The Captain's Doll
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: D.H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9781470325251

Author: D.H. Lawrence

Narrator: Davina Porter

Unabridged: 3 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/26/2012

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Captain Hepburn had a wife he didn't love and a mistress who made hand-crafted dolls; in fact, she'd made one in the image of the captain, resplendent in his military uniform, and now his wife wants to buy it. In this taut tale, love is a complicated battle, and the soldier is outflanked.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

A novella written in 1921 about the relationship between a married army captain and an impoverished German countess. The last section in the Austrian mountains is written beautifully - the descriptive narrative of the trip to the glacier is brilliant, ruined only by an underlying anti-Semitic tone.......more

Goodreads review by Kristine

This book was recommended to me by a book-lover who enjoys reading just about everything. The story was interesting. I have never read anything by D.H. Lawrence before, so the style took some getting used to. The story was short, yet it said a lot about people at the time the story took place. It wa......more