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The Thimble

By: D.H. Lawrence
Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe
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In "The Thimble", Lawrence moves to the world of the affluent middle classes, a world to which he perhaps aspired. The story is a touching one of a disfigured husband returning home from the war to a beautiful new wife. The thimble of the story can be seen to represent purposeless, surface beauty, which has no function. The husband casts the thimble away, but can this marriage survive the surface damage and find a deeper meaning?

Public Domain (P)2022 Alan Avery
Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Fiction Short Stories World Literature Marriage
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