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D.H. Lawrence, the man of creative genius, who was often misunderstood and commonly criticized during his life time, had woven a neat and beautiful fabric out of numerous strands of novels, tales, poems, plays, travels and adventure books, literary, social and political essays. He left remarkable marks of his genius in each of these genres. He was hated as a black devil, disbelieved as a prophet and loved and valued as a man and writer. Now that it is more than ninety years since he died, can we not rid ourselves of the black devil and prophet and find the man and writer. Like a great artist Lawrence has turned his personal experiences into the perfect pieces of art. In early tales the conflict between Eastwood and London has been dramatized objectively. Lawrence's friendships and quarrel with Jessie Chambers and Louie Burrows gave rise to a number of stories like "A Modern Lover" and "The Shades of Spring" "England, My England" etc. In the later period Lawrence has transformed his experiences of friendship and fued with John Middleton Murry into beautiful stories like "Jimmy and the Desperate Woman", "The Border Line", "The Last Laugh" and "Smile". Although in these stories Murry has been cruelly ridiculed, it is the 'Murry-type which is Lawrence's satiric target. The biographical materials of the most immediate relevance to the genesis of these four stories are the events and feelings of Lawrence's brief visit to England and the continent in fall and winter of 1923-24.