David Herbert: 146 books

Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers, and his German wife Harriet, in the early 1920s. This appears to be semi-autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, in 1922. The novel includes...

This is the first volume of Lawrence's collected short stories. It contains thirteen tales set in both England and America, including "The Rocking-Horse Winner", Lawrence's most popular short story.

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'Mother and Daughter' can be read as one of Lawrence's diatribes against women. Two women do their best to get along without men but in the end, as Lawrence always proposed, a woman cannot be fulfilled without a dominant man, however unsuitable he may be. 

The Primrose Path tells of the youngest sibling of a family, considered to be a black sheep of sorts, who leaves his first wife for a young woman who later, according to him, poisons him. He jumps around from England to Australia and back, where he finally settles in as a taxi-cab driver and takes...

Intessuto di una liricità che accentua la sostanza psichica del romanzo, curato in ogni dettaglio di concretezza visiva, alternato di luci e ombre, minutamente autobiografico, Figli e amanti è la ricerca, sempre incerta e contorta, dei moventi più segreti dell’animo umano, dove ogni gesto, ogni...

‘A Modern Lover’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1909. It was the sixth of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. A young man returns home to his first love to declare his feelings for her but the moment is lost when the...

The Wintry Peacock is a powerful portrayal of the devastating effects of the First World War.Disillusioned in his role as a husband and father, Egbert strives to find his identity as a soldier. Yet the brutality of war leaves no room for such romantic notions, and everything that Egbert sought...

Goose Fair’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1910. It was the seventh of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. Lawrence sets his story against the backdrop of the industrial troubles caused by the Franco-Prussian war of...

'The Witch à la Mode' examines the theme of marriage and the social and passionate contrasts of a modern marriage. The hero of the story returns to England to undertake a 'respectable' marriage but is drawn to see the passionate love of his life once more. Their mutual passion attracts and repels...

'The Mortal Coil' is one of Lawrence's darker stories. From adversity the lovers find a kind of happiness in each other only for death to snatch it away.  

'Samson and Delilah' is set against a Cornish backdrop. Lawrence and his wife tried to settle in Cornwall during the First World War but were hounded by the authorities and forced to leave. Lawrence pointedly describes the local people as' mindless' in this story. It is almost a Homeric story of a...

'Tickets Please' returns Lawrence to his native Nottingham during the war. The social revolution of women doing jobs previously done by men, also begins to change the relationship between the sexes and the women in the story are aggressive and wanting their rights. But are they happier for conquering...

'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.