David Herbert: 146 books

Maurice Pervin, a world war veteran, has settled on a farm in the English Midlands after being blinded in combat during his second tour of army duty in Flanders. He and his wife, Isabel, have employed a tenant couple to manage the farm. Maurice discusses details of production with his manager and...

In this story Lawrence returns to his relationship with Jessie Chambers at Haggs Farm, a relationship which he explores fully in his novel 'Sons and Lovers'. The hero has moved on in the world of men and is married yet cannot forget his old love. He retraces his steps to the farm hoping for what?...

There is the simple but honest mine worker, who has taken on a wife who is 'above' him but who is struggling to understand her and her feelings for him. Slowly, the story unravels the woman's past. The reader cannot be entirely unsympathetic to her plight, Lawrence is too good a writer to let that...

‘The Thorn in the Flesh’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1914. It was the twenty-fourth of his sixty-seven short stories. In this story, the young soldier fights against his own shortcomings as a soldier and as a man. He flees the scene of his crime into the arms of his lover where he finds solace...

D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' could be described as a story in which boy meets girl. Its plot, on the surface, resembles that of any number of traditionally romantic pastorals: a country boy saves a country girl from drowning, sees something in her that he never saw before, and, at...

Monkey Nuts' deals with the consequences of the War, especially for the relationship between men and women and how the roles of the latter have changed. On the one hand I did like the story because the female protagonist was so interesting and strong but on the other hand it was almost mean towards...

‘Love Among the Haystacks’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1912. It was the eighteenth of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. In this story, Lawrence returns to the scenes of his young manhood with farming scenes and...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The first narrative in the collection is "The Prussian Officer", which tells of a Captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has been left with only his military...

An obscure but excellent and very short and rather sad story by the author of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, albeit without any of the sexual controversy of the longer work. A couple of young American idealists, Valerie and Erasmus, decide to avoid working for a living to explore the beauty of Europe,...

The mistress of the British School stepped down from her school gate, and instead of turning to the left as usual, she turned to the right. Two women who were hastening home to scramble their husbands' dinners together--it was five minutes to four--stopped to look at her. They stood gazing after her for a moment; then they glanced at each other with a woman's little grimace.

About the Author D.H. Lawrence had unconventional opinions, especially about sexuality, and at the time of his death he was thought of mainly as a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. But E.M. Forster, in an obituary notice, described him as ""the greatest imaginative novelist...

This book presents the first full-length study of the relationship between religion and the controversial concept of civil society. Across the world in the last two decades of the twentieth century religions re-entered public space as influential discursive and symbolic systems apparently beyond the...

Édition enrichie (Avant-propos et notes) " Epouse frustrée d'un mari infirme, Constance Chatterley vit avec son garde-chasse une passion où le désir physique est indissociable de la complicité spirituelle. Bravant les interdits de leur milieu, les deux amants iront jusqu'au bout de...

Per il verismo tattile con il quale racconta l'amore sessuale, per la critica aperta alle convenzioni sociali, per l'apparente esaltazione dell'adulterio, l'opera più famosa di Lawrence (colpita da sentenze di oscenità e volgarità) uscì purgata nel 1928, in Inghilterra; sarà pubblicata in edizione...