#paperback#classic#DHLawrence#Banned#TheVirginandtheGipsy#sex#VirginandtheGipsy 1978 Bantam Books paperback edition of "The Virgin and the Gipsy", by D. H. Lawrence. Nice copy! Excellent condition. Undamaged, unbroken, tight spine. Straight, still glossy cover. Lightly, evenly aged pages. Ships in (1) business day! More about "The Virgin and the Gipsy": "The Virgin and the Gipsy" was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence's death in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence had distilled and purified his ideas about sexuality and morality, 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' has become a classic and is one of Lawrence's most electrifying short novels. Set in a small village in the English countryside, this is the story of a secluded, sensitive rector's daughter who yearns for meaning beyond the life to which she seems doomed. When she meets a handsome young gipsy whose life appears different from hers in every way, she is immediately smitten and yet still paralyzed by her own fear and social convention. Not until a natural catastrophe suddenly, miraculously sweeps away the world as she knew it does a new world of passion open for her.