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  • The Rocking-Horse Winner

    D H Lawrence

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 4, 2013)
    "The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a short story by D. H. Lawrence. The story describes a young middle-class Englishwoman who "had no luck." Though outwardly successful, she is haunted by a sense of failure; her husband is a ne'er-do-well and her work as a commercial artist doesn't earn as much as she'd like. The family's lifestyle exceeds its income and unspoken anxiety about money permeates the household. Her children, a son Paul and his two sisters, sense this anxiety; moreover, the kids even claim they can hear the house whispering "There must be more money." Paul tells his Uncle Oscar Cresswell about betting on horse races with Bassett, the gardener. He's been placing bets using his pocket money and has won and saved three hundred twenty pounds. Sometimes he says he is "sure" of a winner for an upcoming race, and the horses he names do in fact win, sometimes at remarkable odds. Uncle Oscar and Bassett both place large bets on the horses Paul names. After further winning, Paul and Oscar arrange to give the mother a gift of five thousand pounds, but the gift only lets her spend more. Disappointed, Paul tries harder than ever to be "lucky". As the Derby approaches, Paul is determined to learn the winner. Concerned about his health, his mother rushes home from a party and discovers his secret. He has been spending hours riding his rocking horse, sometimes all night long, until he "gets there", into a clairvoyant state where he can be sure of the winner's name. Paul remains ill through the day of the Derby. Informed by Cresswell, Bassett has placed Paul's bet on Malabar, at fourteen to one. When he is informed by Bassett that he now has 80,000 pounds, Paul says to his mother: "I never told you, mother, that if I can ride my horse, and get there, then I'm absolutely sure โ€“ oh absolutely! Mother, did I ever tell you? I am lucky!" "No, you never did," said his mother. The boy dies in the night and his mother hears her brother say, โ€œMy God, Hester, youโ€™re eighty-odd thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad. But, poor devil, poor devil, heโ€™s best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking horse to find a winner.โ€
  • The Rocking Horse Winner

    D H Lawrence

    eBook (Blackthorn Press, July 7, 2014)
    'The Rocking Horse Winner' is one of Lawrence's more popular short stories with its mixture of the supernatural and it moral lesson of the corrupting nature of the love of money. But it has nothing new to say on the subject and without the central core of Lawrence's passion for what he is writing, seems somewhat trite.
  • The Rocking-Horse Winner

    D. H. Lawrence

    Paperback (Perfection Learning, Sept. 1, 1982)
    "Dramascripts" are intended for use in secondary schools, amateur theatrical groups and youth clubs. This play is an adaptation of D.H.Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner", a moving short story which deals with greed and the dangers of outright materialism.
  • The Rocking-Horse Winner

    D H Lawrence

    Library Binding (Creative Education, Sept. 15, 2010)
    But he became a partner. And when the Leger was coming on, Paul was "sure" about Lively Spark, which was a quite inconsiderable horse. The boy insisted on putting a thousand on the horse, Bassett went for five hundred, and Oscar Cresswell two hundred. Lively Spark came in first, and the betting had been ten to one against him. Paul had made ten thousand.
  • The Rocking-Horse Winner

    Lawrence D. H.

    Paperback Bunko (Perfection Learning, March 24, 1600)
    Excellent Book
  • The Rocking Horse Winner / A Fragment of Stained Glass

    D.H. Lawrence

    Paperback (Travelman Publishing, July 1, 1998)
    (The Rocking-Horse Winner, which first appeared in Cynthia Asquith's Ghost Book of 1926, is one of D. H Lawrence's best known stories; an eerily supernatural tale about a small boy who is determined to reverse his family's continuing ill-fortune by winning huge amounts of money at the races. In A Fragment of Stained Glass, monks at an old abbey believe they have seen the Devil trying to break in through a stained glass window. But what was really happening? Many years later a local parish priest thinks he has the answer)
  • The Rocking-Horse Winner

    D. H. Lawrence

    Paperback (Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2004)
    But he became a partner. And when the Leger was coming on, Paul was "sure" about Lively Spark, which was a quite inconsiderable horse. The boy insisted on putting a thousand on the horse, Bassett went for five hundred, and Oscar Cresswell two hundred. Lively Spark came in first, and the betting had been ten to one against him. Paul had made ten thousand.
  • The Rocking-Horse Winner

    D. H. Lawrence

    Paperback (Merrill Pub Co, June 1, 1969)
    None
  • Rocking Horse Winner

    D. H. Lawrence, Sandra Higashi

    Library Binding (Creative Co, Dec. 1, 1982)
    Hoping to prove his luck and satisfy his mother's obsession with money, a young boy rides madly atop his rocking horse and predicts the winners of horse races
  • The Rocking-Horse Winner

    Clark Fuller

    Paperback (DRAMATIC PUBLISHING CO, )
    None
  • The Rocking-Horse Winner

    D.H. Lawrence

    Pamphlet (The Perfection Form Company, March 24, 1982)
    None
  • The Rocking Horse Winner

    D. H. Lawrence, Cathy Dobson, Red Door Audiobooks

    Audiobook (Red Door Audiobooks, March 22, 2012)
    Growing up in a strange dysfunctional family, Paul discovers that he has a unique gift. He is able, with the aid of his rocking horse, to predict the winners of horse races. In order to gain his mother's affection, Paul sets about winning enough money to sate her consuming passion for luxury with one last enormous wager....