David Herbert 'D. H.' Lawrence

Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, apparently patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her. When a gentlemanly neighbour makes romantic advances to her, she wishes her husband dead. Sooner than she hoped, her wish comes true-when her husband dies in a mining accident. When Charles Holroyd's body is brought home from the mine, and his wife and mother must wash him and lay him out for his funeral, we see for the first time...

"Encanto... inmediatez y pasión... Cerdeña y el mar se caracteriza por una descripción intensa de los paisajes, que parecen cuadros y películas por su atención a los detalles más delicados, al color y a la luz". D.H. Lawrence y su esposa Frieda visitaron Cerdeña en enero de 1921. Aunque el viaje no duró más de nueve días, Lawrence escribió un relato fascinante sobre la vida en la isla que evoca no sólo el lugar, sus gentes y las costumbres...

In "Studies in American Literature", D. H. Lawrence's brilliance as both a writer and a critic shimmers with energy and originality. His thought-provoking look at canonized American literature is a brazenly opinionated, unabashed, playfully irreverent examination of authors and works that have shaped the American literary imagination. His unyielding intellectual curiosity sheds new light on the grand tapestry of Walt Whitman's poetic vision, the daring...

"How Lawrence Found His Lost Girl in Cornwall", is the title of the Introduction to this edition of Lawrence's sixth major novel. In it Sandra Jobson shows how Lawrence based part of his character Alvina Houghton on Katherine Mansfield, the New Zealand short-story writer. 'The Lost Girl' was in fact Lawrence's third novel, but was not published until 1920. It is his only novel to have won a literary prize. Originally called 'The Insurrection of Miss...

D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) created controversial works that explore the dehumanizing effects of modern life. But in his lifetime the novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist was regarded as little more than a pornographer. Today Lawrence is praised for his artistic vision as well as his integrity, and his books and other writings rank among the English literary canon. This anthology presents the complete text of Lawrence's masterpiece, Sons and...

Sun is the sensual story of a woman rediscovering her sexuality through the power of the sun, written by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. (Goodreads)

First published in 1913, "Sons and Lovers" is D. H. Lawrence's provocative semi-autobiographical novel. The work is based in part on his own family, his mother married a miner like the matriarch of the novel and consequently felt constrained by being relegated to a working class life. The story reflects the struggles of Paul Morel, an artist who cannot reciprocate love for other women while under the influence of his stifling mother. Unconsciously...

An invaluable resource for students of D. H. Lawrence and the early history of psychoanalysis, this essay presents the Lawrence's counterproposal to Freudian theory, and articulates his views on education, marriage, and social and political action, along with his insights into the polarity that exists between emotional and intellectual identities.

D. H. Lawrence's classic two-part story, originally published as 'The Escaped Cock', is a re-imagining of the Biblical story of the Resurrection. The author himself described the story in a letter to his friend Earl Brewster thusly: 'I wrote a story of the Resurrection, where Jesus gets up and feels very sick bout everything, and can't stand the old crowd any more - so cuts out - and as he heals up, he begins to find what an astonishing place the...

“The Fox” by D.H. Lawrence is a novella set in rural England during World War I. The story follows two women, Banford and March, who live together on a farm. Banford is a strong and practical woman who runs the farm, while March is more delicate and artistic. Their peaceful existence is disrupted when a young soldier named Henry Grenfel arrives on their doorstep seeking refuge. Banford is initially suspicious of him, but March is drawn to his...