The Rocking-Horse Winner
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The Rocking-Horse Winner

D.H. Lawrence
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An exemplar of Modernist fiction, "The Rocking-Horse Winner" tells the story of a young boy named Paul who learns to predict horse-race winners by frantically riding a rocking-horse until he enters a trance.
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