D H Lawrence: 314 books

The story is set in the years before the Great War of 1914, seen by some as an idyllic time of sunshine and peace before everything was shattered by the mechanised war of 1914 to 1918. The family are placed in an idealised setting, deep in the English countryside but there are snakes in this Garden...

The White Peacock is set in Nethermere (fictional name for real-life Eastwood) and is narrated by Cyril Beardsall, whose sister Laetitia is involved in a love triangle with two young men, George and Leslie Temple. She decides to marry Leslie, even though she feels sexually drawn to George. Spurned...

The lull continued. Then suddenly came sharp orders, and a new direction of the guns, and an intense, exciting activity. Yet at the center the soul remained dark and aloof, alone. But even so, it was the soul that heard the new sound: the new, deep "papp!" of a gun that seemed to touch right upon...

L'opera, da molti considerata il suo primo capolavoro, fu nella sua prima edizione pesantemente rimaneggiata da Edward Garnett (a cui peraltro è dedicata) che ne cancellò un'ottantina di brani, circa un decimo della lunghezza. Fu solo nel 1922 che ne venne pubblicata una versione in cui fu recuperato...

The Rainbow explores the sexually stormy marriages of three generations of Brangwens, an English family living in an era when Britain began to shake off its socially conservative shackles. Ursula Brangwen, the granddaughter, confronts the restraints of her upbringing in order to experience life and love on her own terms.

This collection of ten short stories, many set against the backdrop of World War I, appeared in 1922.  In addition to the title story, it contains such classics as "Tickets, Please," "Monkey Nuts," and "The Horse Dealer's Daughter."

(Excerpt): "The present book is a continuation from "Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious." The generality of readers had better just leave it alone. The generality of critics likewise. I really don't want to convince anybody. It is quite in opposition to my whole nature. I don't intend...

(Excerpt): "The day was gone, the twilight was gone, and the snow was invisible as I came down to the side of the lake. Only the moon, white and shining, was in the sky, like a woman glorying in her own loveliness as she loiters superbly to the gaze of all the world, looking sometimes through...

A collection of short stories including includes England, My England, Tickets, Please, The Blind Man, Monkey Nuts, Wintry Peacock, You Touched Me, Samson and Delilah, The Primrose Path, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter, and Fanny And Annie.

L'opera, da molti considerata il suo primo capolavoro, fu nella sua prima edizione pesantemente rimaneggiata da Edward Garnett (a cui peraltro è dedicata) che ne cancellò un'ottantina di brani, circa un decimo della lunghezza. Fu solo nel 1922 che ne venne pubblicata una versione in cui fu recuperato...

'You Touched Me' is  a comic/tragic story of a forced marriage brought about by an accidental touch in the night but the depth of the writing leaves the reader unsure if the couple are marrying for money or to release the passions realised by the touch in the night.

This is the story of Alvina Houghton, the daughter of an English businessman, who elopes to Italy with a travelling artist, where she discovers her sexuality desire for freedom.

On an impulse, Aaron Sisson walks out on his wife and two children to pursue a musical career in Italy. He evenutally settles in Florence and moves in influential circles, has an affair with a local luminary and loses his flute.