Lawrence D. H.

With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public...

The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family and their struggles with each other and themselves. Beautiful, strange and with a power all its own, The Rainbow redefined the English novel....

David Herbert Lawrence (11 X 1885 Eastwood w hrabstwie Nottingham - 2 II 1930 Vence we Francji), wybitny prozaik, poeta, eseista i krytyk angielski. Był synem nauczycielki i górnika. Przez cztery lata pracował jako nauczyciel w podlondyńskich szkołach. Po 1912 skupił się wyłącznie na działalności literackiej. Autor kilkunastu powieści, m.in. Sons...

A brilliantly varied new selection of D. H. Lawrence's essays, chosen and introduced by Geoff DyerFor D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, 'the one bright book of life', yet his non-fiction shows him at his most freewheeling and playful. This is a selection of his essays, on subjects including art, morality, obscenity, songbirds, Italy,...