D. H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

When first published privately in Italy, in 1928, Lady Chatterly’s Lover was too risqué for readers and was considered unprintable. It wasn’t until three decades later, in 1960, that the novel could be...

Etruscan Places

by D. H. Lawrence

'Etruscan Places', or, 'Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian Essays' is the collection of travel writings from D. H. Lawrence, first published posthumously in 1932. In this book Lawrence contrasted...

Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence

Women in Love is a sequel to The Rainbow. Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are two sisters living in the Midlands of England in the 1910s. Ursula is a teacher, Gudrun an artist. They meet two men who live nearby,...

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

When her unemotional husband returns from war impotent and paralysed, Lady Chatterley finds herself in an unsatisfying marriage and starts a passionate affair with her husband's gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. Initially...

Women In Love

by D. H. Lawrence

Dark, but filled with bright genius, Women in Love is a prophetic masterpiece steeped in eroticism, filled with perceptions about sexual power and obsession that have proven to be timeless and true.

Fantasia of the Unconscious

by D. H. Lawrence

English author and literary critic D. H. Lawrence writes in Fantasia of the Unconscious:

I am not a proper archaeologist nor an anthropologist nor an ethnologist. I am no "scholar" of any sort. But I am very...

Sons and Lovers (Centennial Edition)

by D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence’s great autobiographical novel paints a provocative portrait of an artist torn between affection for his mother and desire for two beautiful women. Set in the Nottinghamshire coalfields of Lawrence’s...

The Wedding Ring

by D. H. Lawrence

When D.H. Lawrence wrote The Rainbow and Women in Love he had intended for it to be a single novel. One of the names he was considering was The Wedding Ring. The publisher, however, chose to break the work into...

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and budding artist. The refined daughter of an old family, Gertrude Coppard meets a rough-hewn miner at a Christmas dance and falls into a whirlwind...

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

In Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence argues for individual regeneration, which can be found only through the relationship between man and woman (and, he asserts sometimes, man and man). Love and personal relationships...