This short collection of poetry is a wonderful introduction to Lawrence's masterful, whimsical, and entertaining prose. Detailing his observations of a group of tortoises living in his garden, he explores intimacy in a way no others have.
Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée, Nathaniel Hawthorne, EDGAR ALLAN POE, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Rainer Maria Rilke, Saki, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sherwood Anderson, Virginia Woolf, Ring Lardner, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, E.M. Forster, H. P. Lovecraft, Agatha Christie, H. G. Wells, James Joyce & Anton Chekhov