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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'There was one place in the world that stood
solid and did not melt into unreality: the place where his mother
was. Everybody else could grow shadowy, almost non-existent to him,
but she could not.' In his quest to find his emotional and
independent self, Paul Morel is torn between the strong, Oedipal
bond he has with his mother and the relationships he forges as a
young adult, with chaste Miriam and the provocative Clara. As Paul
matures and struggles with his own and his mother's feelings
towards the other women in his life, Lawrence expertly crafts a
timeless and universal story of family, love and the relationships
that define us.
Famously banned for indecency, Lawrence’s final novel is one of the most notorious and passionate love stories in literature.
Constance Reid, Lady Chatterley, is a young woman trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to an aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralyzed. After her husband demands that she provide him with an heir, she enters into a liaison with their gamekeeper, a working-class man named Oliver Mellors. As their illicit relationship grows in tenderness, mutual respect, and sensual passion, Constance discovers that true fulfillment requires a real connection of both mind and body.
Shocking to its original audience for its cross-class romance as well as for its explicit depictions of sex, the novel has long been hailed as the summit of Lawrence's artistic achievement and one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER was
banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy.
Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley’s marriage to
Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralyzed
from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an
heir and embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford
suggests that she have an affair. Constance, troubled by her
husband’s words, finds herself involved in a passionate
relationship with their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Lawrence’s
vitriolic denunciations of industrialism and class division come
together in his vivid depiction of the profound emotional and
physical connection between a couple otherwise divided by station
and society.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was banned
on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy.
Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley's marriage to Sir
Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralyzed from
the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and
embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests
that she have an affair. Constance, troubled by her husband's
words, finds herself involved in a passionate relationship with
their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Lawrence's vitriolic
denunciations of industrialism and class division come together in
his vivid depiction of the profound emotional and physical
connection between a couple otherwise divided by station and
society.
Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain
until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial,
Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal
novels of the twentieth century. Lawrence's determination to
explore every aspect - sexual, social, psychological - of Lady
Chatterley's adulterous liaison with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors
makes for a profound meditation on the human condition, the forces
of nature and the social constraints that people struggle to
overcome. Containing autobiographical elements and set in the
author's native Nottinghamshire, Lawrence's final novel had a
profound impact on twentieth-century culture and sexual attitudes,
while confirming his standing as one of the most eminent fiction
writers that England has produced.
Quetzalcoatl was written during Lawrence's first stay in Mexico, in
May and June 1923, and registers his initial responses to those
aspects of Mexican landscape, religion, politics and culture which
would fascinate him over the following two years. On leaving Mexico
in July 1923, he described Quetzalcoatl as 'nearly finished',
intending to revise it later, but in the event actually rewrote it
almost completely, and it was published as The Plumed Serpent in
1926. This is the first scholarly edition of the original
manuscripts and typescripts of Quetzalcoatl, and includes a record
of all revisions Lawrence made in the course of writing it,
detailed explanatory notes and an introduction outlining its
compositional history. With the publication of this volume, all
Lawrence's novels, in their first, intermediate and final versions,
are now available in the Cambridge edition.
It's risky work, handlin' men, my lass. For when a woman builds her
life on men, either husbands or sons, she builds on summat as
sooner or later brings the house down crash on her head - yi, she
does. In Husbands and Sons, Ben Power has interwoven three of D. H.
Lawrence's greatest dramas, The Daughter-in-Law, A Collier's Friday
Night and The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd. Together, they describe the
community Lawrence came from with fierce tenderness, evoking a
now-vanished world of manual labour and working-class pride. On the
cracked border of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire stands the village
of Eastwood. The women of the village, wives and mothers, struggle
to hold their families and their own souls together in the shadow
of the great Brinsley pit. Husband and Sons by D. H. Lawrence,
adapted by Ben Power, premiered at the National Theatre, London, in
October 2015 in a co-production with Royal Exchange Theatre.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved,
essential classics. LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER was banned on its
publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence
tells the story of Constance Chatterley’s marriage to Sir
Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralyzed from
the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and
embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests
that she have an affair. Constance, troubled by her husband’s
words, finds herself involved in a passionate relationship with
their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Lawrence’s vitriolic
denunciations of industrialism and class division come together in
his vivid depiction of the profound emotional and physical
connection between a couple otherwise divided by station and
society.
With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent
at Canterbury. 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 was still
writing poetry when he died in 1930. It therefore allows the reader
to trace the development of Lawrence as a poet and appreciate the
remarkable originality and distinctiveness of his achievement. Not
all the poems reprinted here are masterpieces but there is more
than enough quality to confirm Lawrence's status as one of the
greatest English writers of the twentieth century.
This volume contains 848 letters from the period June 1921 to March 1924. Lawrence decides to leave the old world - ‘my heart - and my soul are broken in Europe’ - to live in Taos, New Mexico. This period is characterised by the travelling he and Frieda do, from Australia to New York, via Mexico, back to England and finally to New York again. Lawrence’s writings of the period reflect his restlessness. The action of Aaron’s Rod shifts from a coal-mining town in England to Florence and Kangaroo conveys Lawrence’s perceptions of Australia. By 1924, Lawrence is returning to Taos to write his Mexican novel, ‘Quetzacoatl’, published as The Plumed Serpent. His difficulties with agents and publishers continue to appear in the letters. New correspondences are started with Australians, including Mollie Skinner, the co-author of The Boy in the Bush, and Americans, such as Mabel Luhan, Idella Purnell and Witter Bynner.
Notes and Introduction by David Ellis, University of Kent at
Canterbury. 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 Prosecutions
to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition. The famous 'Lady
Chatterley trial' heralded the sexual revolution of the coming
decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery. Yet
Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the conservativism
of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks
from the political avant-garde and from feminists. The story of how
the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds when her husband
returns from the war paralysed from the waist down, and of the
tender love which then develops between her and her husband's
gamekeeper, is a complex one open to a variety of conflicting
interpretations. This edition of the novel offers an occasion for a
new generation of readers to discover what all the fuss was about;
to appraise Lawrence's bitter indictment of modern industrial
society, and to ask themselves what lessons there might be for the
21st century in his intense exploration of the complicated
relations between love and sex.
In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence left England for the first time and
travelled to northern Italy. He spent nearly a year on the shores
of Lake Garda, lodged in elegantly decaying houses set amid lemon
groves and surrounded by the fading life of traditional Italy. This
is a travel book unlike any other, where landscapes and people are
backdrops to Lawrence's deeper wanderings - into philosophy,
opinion, life, nature, religion and the fate of man. With sensuous
descriptions of late harvests, darkening days and fragile ancient
traditions, Twilight in Italy is suffused with nostalgia and
premonition. For, looming over the idyll of rural Italy hover dark
spectres: the arrival of the industrial age and the brewing storm
of World War I, upheavals that would change the face of Europe
forever.
Quetzalcoatl was written during Lawrence's first stay in Mexico, in
May and June 1923, and registers his initial responses to those
aspects of Mexican landscape, religion, politics and culture which
would fascinate him over the following two years. On leaving Mexico
in July 1923, he described Quetzalcoatl as 'nearly finished',
intending to revise it later, but in the event actually rewrote it
almost completely, and it was published as The Plumed Serpent in
1926. This is the first scholarly edition of the original
manuscripts and typescripts of Quetzalcoatl, and includes a record
of all revisions Lawrence made in the course of writing it,
detailed explanatory notes and an introduction outlining its
compositional history. With the publication of this volume, all
Lawrence's novels, in their first, intermediate and final versions,
are now available in the Cambridge edition.
Studies in Classic American Literature, first published in 1923,
provides a cross-section of D. H. Lawrence's writing on American
literature, including landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, James
Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman
Melville and Walt Whitman. Eight of the essays were first published
in the English Review 1918-19; but Lawrence continued to work on
his material, with the aim of producing a full-length book; at
various times fifteen separate items belonged to it, all of them
revised on different occasions, some of them four or five times,
and often corrected with the errors of their predecessors
preserved. This volume offers the final 1923 version of the text in
a newly corrected and uncensored form, and the complete surviving
text of the essays of the English Review period, as well as a host
of other materials, including four different versions of Lawrence's
pioneering essay on Whitman.
Written in D. H. Lawrence's most productive period, 'Psychoanalysis
and the Unconscious' (1921) and 'Fantasia of the Unconscious'
(1922) were undertaken initially in response to psychoanalytic
criticism of his novel Sons and Lovers. They soon developed more
generally to propose an alternative to what Lawrence perceived as
the Freudian psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious and the
incest motive. The essays also develop his ideas about the
upbringing and education of children, about marriage, and about
social and even political action. Lawrence described them as 'this
pseudo-philosophy of mine which was deduced from the novels and
poems, not the reverse. The absolute need one has for some sort of
satisfactory mental attitude towards oneself and things in general
makes one try to abstract some definite conclusions from one's
experiences as a writer and as a man'. These conclusions form an
illuminating guide to his works and therein lies their peculiar
value.
D. H. Lawrence's best-known late fictions are presented in this
volume, which is dominated by two powerful novellas, The Virgin and
the Gipsy and The Escaped Cock (also known as The Man Who Died). In
the first, a young woman from a restrictive English rectory
discovers further dimensions to life through her contact with a
gipsy; in the second, an unnamed man - in fact Lawrence's vision of
Christ - is resurrected and escapes from his tomb. Both novellas
deal with the themes of escape and sexual awakening, which are
echoed in the four short stories and three fragments also collected
here. This edition restores Lawrence's final texts, before the
changes introduced by censorship, mistakes in transmission and
various other forms of interference, with variants recorded. The
introduction traces the history of the stories, while the notes
offer help with allusions, contexts and other points of potential
difficulty or interest.
This 2004 volume collects together the introductions and reviews
for which Lawrence was responsible over the whole duration of his
writing career, from 1911 to 1930: it includes the book review
which was the last thing he ever wrote, in the Ad Astra Sanatorium
in Vence. The forty-nine separate items include some of his most
compelling literary productions: for example, the fascinating
Memoir of Maurice Magnus of 1921 2, his only extended piece of
biographical writing. The volume's Introduction not only outlines
the literary contacts of Lawrence's career which led him to doing
such work, but gives a fresh account of the life of a literary
professional who regularly wrote in support of work in which he
personally believed, and who also (rather surprisingly) wrote
reviews of nearly thirty books. All the texts, including a number
previously unpublished in Britain, have been edited and are
supplied with extensive explanatory notes."
In his last years D. H. Lawrence often wrote for newspapers; he
needed the money, and clearly enjoyed the work. He also wrote
several substantial essays during the same period. This
meticulously-edited collection brings together major essays such as
Pornography and Obscenity and Lawrence's spirited Introduction to
the volume of his Paintings; a group of autobiographical pieces,
two of which are published here for the first time; and the
articles Lawrence wrote at the invitation of newspaper and magazine
editors. There are thirty-nine items in total, thirty-five of them
deriving from original manuscripts; all were written between 1926
and Lawrence's death in March 1930. They are ordered
chronologically according to the date of composition; each is
preceded by an account of the circumstances in which it came to be
published. The volume is introduced by a substantial survey of
Lawrence's career as a writer responding directly to public
interests and concerns.
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D. H Lawrence; Introduction by Geoff Dyer; Afterword by John Worthen
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"Lady Chatterley's Lover" is both one of the most beautiful and
notorious love stories in modern fiction. The summation of D.H.
Lawrence's artistic achievement, it sharply illustrates his belief
that tenderness and passion were the only weapons that could save
man from self-destruction.
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