Lawrence D.H.

`When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life'.Richard AldingtonThis novel is Lawrence's semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding...

In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century.The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the...

In this notorious late novel, Lawrence's pagan imaginings burgeon. Kate Leslie, an Irish widow touring Mexico, becomes gradually involved with a charismatic leader, and she enters a sexual relationship with his dark henchman.As the two men conspire to revive the old Aztec religion and seize power, Kate is increasingly implicated in their 'blood...

Lawrence's reputation as a novelist has often meant that his achievements in poetry have failed to receive the recognition they deserve. This edition brings together, in a form he himself sanctioned, his Collected Poems of 1928, the unexpurgated version of Pansies, and Nettles, adding to these volumes the contents of the two notebooks in which he...

Dawid Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) - angielski pisarz, eseista, podróżnik, autor m.in "Kochanka Lady Chatterley" zawsze był pisarzem obrazoburczym, skandalistą swojej epoki. Zmagał się z cenzurą, zwalczał pruderyjne obyczaje, opiewał erotyzm, bodaj jako pierwszy w literaturze skupia się na erotycznych doznaniach kobiety, opisuje wspólny orgazm. W...

But I ran up the broken stairway, and came out suddenly, as if by a miracle, clean on the platform of my San Tommaso, in the tremendous sunshine.'Four personal, sun-drenched sketches of Lawrence's experiences in Italy.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and...