D.H. Lawrence

Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a whole cultural crisis. The 'progress' of the...

The novel follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, focusing on relations and sexual dynamics of the characters. The Rainbow represents Lawrence's frank treatment of sexual desire and the power it plays within relationships as a natural and even spiritual force of life, and explores the topic of female...

The Virgin and the Gipsy was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence's death in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence had distilled and purified his ideas about sexuality and morality, The Virgin and the Gipsy has become a classic and is one of Lawrence's most electrifying short novels.Set in a small village in...

Women in Love&' is widely regarded as D.H. Lawrence&'s greatest novel. It continues where &'The Rainbow&' left off with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their...

(A Modern Library E-Book)Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeSons and Lovers is one of the landmark novels of the twentieth century. It was immediately recognized as the first great modern restatement of the oedipal drama when it appeared in 1913 and is widely considered the major work of D. H. Lawrence's...

(A Modern Library E-Book)Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeD.H. Lawrence's magnificent exploration of human sexuality in the days surrounding World War I. 'Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions,'...