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The Flying Fish

By: D.H. Lawrence
Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe
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"The Flying Fish" is unfinished, but tells the story of an Englishman, Gethin Day, returning home after years in South America. There is a hint of the homesickness Lawrence may have felt during his long exile. The bulk of the story is the time spent on the ship which is taking Day back to England. It is a ship of fools, a "plague ship", and the only positive note is the joy Day sees in the play of the flying fish and porpoises around the ship. It is tantalizing to speculate how Day would have adapted to English life again, confined to an old house in an old country.

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