D. H. Lawrence

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...

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...

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.

The Princess

by D. H. Lawrence

“The Princess” chronicles the life of Mary Henrietta “Princess” Uruqhart, whose life is dependent on the affections and sermons of her mad father. When her father passes away, Princess is forced to navigate...

Odour of Chrysanthemums

by D. H. Lawrence

“Odour of Chrysanthemums” is the story of Elizabeth, a young wife and mother waiting for her alcoholic husband, Walter, to return home from what she assumes is another night of drinking. This assumption,...

The Ladybird

by D. H. Lawrence

A wounded German officer, Count Psanek, shares his philosophies on life and love with a local acquaintance, Lady Daphne, while interned in London during the final months of the First World War. Lady Daphne finds...

The Fox

by D. H. Lawrence

Set during the First World War, “The Fox” is the story of Banford and March, two women who live and work together on a farm. Unmarried and in their late twenties, the two expect to remain spinsters and thus...

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 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...

The Rainbow/Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence

A renowned literary figure, D. H. Lawrence pushed the boundaries of early twentieth century literature with his frank discussion of sexuality and women’s physical desire.

Set against the backdrop of England’s...

Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence

In Women In Love, D. H. Lawrence continues the story of Gundrun and Ursula Brangwen, first introduced in The Rainbow. In the course of their daily lives, the sisters meet and develop relationships with Gerald...

The Rainbow

by D. H. Lawrence

Set against the backdrop of England’s industrial revolution, D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow examines shifting social roles in pre-First World War England. Three generations of Brangwen women, Anna, Ursula,...

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers is the critically-acclaimed story of Paul Morel, a second son who must discover his own identity in the shadow of his mother’s overwhelming presence and influence. A budding artist, Paul must...

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...

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...