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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (Paperback)
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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Complete Poems (Paperback, New Ed)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by F.Warren Roberts, Vivian De Sola Pinto
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This definitive collection of Lawrence’s poems, with appendices containing juvenilia, variants, and early drafts, and Lawrence’s own critical introductions to his poems, also includes full textual and explanatory notes, glossary, and index for the work of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.
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Aaron's Rod (Paperback)
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Aaron Sisson lives a humble life in the English Midlands. He works
as a union official for the coal mines, but his real passion is
music. As an amateur, but very talented flautist, Aaron dreams of a
big career as a beloved musician. Though, with his small community
and unglamorous job at the coal mine, this dream seems
unattainable. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, and unsatisfied at
work, Aaron becomes more and more frustrated with his life.
Finally, when he feels that he cannot take it any longer, Aaron
abandons his two kids and wife to run away to Italy. As he begins
his journey Aaron feels hopeful for the first time in a long time.
However, the journey proves to be more trouble than Aaron expected.
When he falls ill, he befriends Rawdon Lilly, a cynical writer.
After Rawdon nurses Aaron through his sickness, Aaron is free to
continue on to Florence. Upon entering a social circle of
intellectuals and artists, he experiences a higher level of
conversation-discussions about politics, leadership, and
expression. Feeling liberated, Aaron has an affair with an
aristocratic woman, excited at all the new pleasures he is
experiencing. Of course, it comes at a cost. In a city struggling
in the aftermath of a war that wiped out generations, talks of
revolution and change echo in the streets, and Aaron's eyes are
opened to social and political problems he had never considered.
With complicated characters and beautifully written prose, Aaron's
Rod by the prolific author, D.H Lawrence, is a unique perspective
on how World War affected the individual. Looking beyond just the
death toll of the war, Aaron's Rod examines those who were left
behind, the political turmoil that followed, and the emotional
plight of the individual. With allusions to the bible and
complicated questions on both the battle and partnership between
art and intellect, Aaron's Rod poses thought-provoking questions
about all levels of Western society. This edition of Aaron's Rod by
D.H Lawrence is now presented in an easy-to-read font and features
a unique and eye-catching new cover design. With these
accommodations, Aaron's Rod is restored to its original genius
while being updated to modern standards.
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Sons and Lovers (Paperback)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by Carl Baron, Helen Baron; Introduction by Blake Morrison
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The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a
battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent
husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children,
especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not
follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict
is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating
grasp through relationships with women his own age. Set in
Lawrence's native Nottinghamshire, Sons and Lovers (1913) is a
highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood,
adolescence and the clash of generations.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (Paperback)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by Michael Squires, Paul Poplawski; Introduction by Doris Lessing
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Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's
Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and
forbidden desire. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her
sexless marriage to the Sir Clifford. Paralysed in the First World
War, Sir Clifford is unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or
physically, and encourages her instead to have a liaison with a man
of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to Oliver
Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, with whom she embarks on a
passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled existence.
Can she find true love with Mellors, despite the vast gulf between
their positions in society? One of the most controversial novels in
English literature, Lady Chatterley's Lover is an erotically
charged and psychologically powerful depiction of adult
relationships. In her introduction Doris Lessing discusses the
influence of Lawrence's sexual politics, his relationship with his
wife Frieda and his attitude towards the First World War. Using the
complete and restored text of the Cambridge edition, this volume
includes a new chronology and further reading by Paul Poplawski and
notes by Michael Squires. Edited with notes by Michael Squires and
an introduction by Doris Lessing. 'A brave and important book,
passionate and wildly ambitious' Independent on Sunday 'A
masterpiece' Guardian
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Women in Love (Paperback, New ed)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by David Farmer, Lindeth Vasey; Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri
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Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, Women in Love
is both a lucid account of English society before the First World
War, and a brilliant evocation of the inexorable power of human
desire. Women in Love 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 relationships, Ursula's with Rupert Birkin, a
school inspector, and Gudrun's with industrialist Gerald Crich, and
later with a sculptor, Loerke. Quintessentially modernist, Women is
Love is one of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative and
unsettling works. In his introduction Amit Chaudhuri discusses
Lawrence's style and imagery. This introduction also includes a
chronology of Lawrence's life and work, further reading, notes and
appendices containing the original foreword to Women in Love, a
fragment of 'The Sisters', 'Prologue' and 'Wedding' chapters from
an earlier draft, a map and discussion of the setting and people
involved. With an introduction by Amit Chaudhuri. 'His genius was
for instant perception and vivid, passionate expression' The Times
'His masterpiece ... Lawrence compels us to admit that we live less
finely than we should' New York Review of Books
Love Poems and Others by D.H Lawrence features thirty-two poems of
various lengths. With themes of love, marriage, gender, sexuality
and emotional health, Lawrence's work is both relatable and
revolutionary. Separated into three sections, Love Poems and Others
addresses an eclectic variety of human struggles. The first
section, Love Poems explores how gender changes the expectations of
love and sex. Through the portrayal of the search for love, this
section examines the almost violent human need for connection,
pondering how society both enables and prevents this instinctual
need. The next section, Dialect reproduces and preserves the
language and concerns of the people in Nottinghamshire, England, a
county in the East Midlands in which D.H Lawrence spent most of his
youth. Through the honest depiction of this region, modern-day
readers are afforded the privileged understanding of this historic
area as Lawrence portrays the intricacies of the people who once
lived there. The final section of Love Poems and Others is titled
Schoolmaster. Following the narrative of a schoolmaster, this
section explores themes of masculinity and youth. Each of the
thirty-two poems featured in Love Poems and Others is crafted with
masterful rhythm, vivid imagery, and tender sentiment. Through the
use of accessible language and relatable themes, Lawrence explores
the taboo and unspoken in his poetry, provoking strong reactions.
Including provocative perspectives, honest depictions, and
representation of a local culture and dialect, Love Poems and
Others proves to be as insightful as it is beautiful. Originally
published over one-hundred years ago in 1915, D.H Lawrence's Love
Poems and Others simultaneously preserves the culture and customs
of his time while also addressing social issues that modern society
still struggles with, attesting to the timelessness of the human
spirit. Featuring fan-favorite poems such as Lilies in the Fire and
Dog-Tired, this edition of Love Poems and Others by D.H Lawrence is
now presented with a stunning new cover design and is printed in an
easy-to-read font. With these accommodations, modern readers are
able to appreciate the gorgeous and substantial verses of the
prolific and provocative author and poet, D.H Lawrence.
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The Rainbow (Paperback, New edition)
D. H Lawrence; Introduction by Lionel Kelly; Notes by Lionel Kelly; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of
Reading. 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 1840s to the early years of the
twentieth century. Within this framework Lawrence's essential
concern is with the passional lives of his characters as he
explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a
religious symbolism in which the 'rainbow' of the title is his
unifying motif. His primary focus is on the individual's struggle
to growth and fulfilment within marriage and changing social
circumstances, a process shown to grow more difficult through the
generations. Young Ursula Brangwen, whose story is continued in
Women in Love, is finally the central figure in Lawrence's anatomy
of the confining structures of English social life and the impact
of industrialisation and urbanisation on the human psyche.
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The Lost Girl (Hardcover)
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Alvina Houghton is bored by her little town, and feels trapped
after her plans to elope with her lover falls through. Though she
had previously dreamed of training as a nurse, Alvina is unsure
what to do with her life. Alvina comes of age as her father, James,
faces the failure of his business. She has a difficult relationship
with her father. He is a man who never fully indulged in his
passions, but has made eccentric financial decisions. In attempt to
secure his daughter's upbringing and save his fortune, James buys a
theater. There, he employs many traveling artists, as well as a
handsome and sensual Italian man named Ciccio. After meeting the
man, Alvina feels drawn to him, especially since he is
well-traveled. The two share a slow-burn courtship, and after a
lifetime of being raised around stifled passion, Alvina feels
alive. Seduced by Ciccio and desperate for adventure, Alvina
decides to run away with Ciccio, fleeing to Naples. As she leaves
behind her life of security, comfort, and predictability, Alvina
starts to explore desire, spontaneity, and her sexual freedom. Free
to do as she wishes with Ciccio, Alvina explores Naples and her own
sexual awakening, feeling independent and unfettered. However, even
as she finds herself, Alvina also faces the reality of such
fleeting freedom. D.H Lawrence's The Lost Girl is an emotionally
compelling narrative featuring strong characters, wit, and prose
that is both beautiful and bitter. With themes of feminism, class
divisions, and family, The Lost Girl is a relatable story that
leaves readers considering fate and the future. Through meticulous
detail, readers are given valuable insight on the class
distinctions and societal expectations of the 1920s in Europe. D.H
Lawrence's The Lost Girl was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial
Prize in 1920 to congratulate its gripping narrative and compelling
characters. Now presented in an easy-to-read font and with a
striking new cover design, this edition of The Lost Girl by D.H
Lawrence restores the novel to modern standards while respecting
its original mastery. With these accommodations, contemporary
audiences are treated to a reading experience that is both
accessible and luxurious.
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