Blackthorn Press: 164 books

'Rex' is a riotous story of the turmoil caused in a household by the arrival of a puppy. The setting is similar to the one found in 'Sons and Lovers' but Lawrence thought this scene deserved the fuller treatment of a short story. The question of the destructive force of unconditional love is left open.

‘Glad Ghosts’ is another of Lawrence's supernatural stories, set in the archetypical country house. He doesn't attempt to explain the supernatural happenings which occur but uses them to extol his own ideas of the power of the sex drive and the triumph of life over death.

'The Lovely Lady' is a fine observation of a life - the lovely lady of the title - which thrives by sucking the life out of others. The two victims escape by a somewhat melodramatic and comical means but in the process destroy the lovely lady and form what will probably be a dull and passionless union.

'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...

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?...

'A Dream of Life', is unfinished but there is enough extant to let us know where Lawrence was going in this story. He begins by looking back and bemoaning what has become of his generation, under the thumb of women and lacking the spark of his father's mining friends. Then in a scene reminiscent of...

'None of That' concerns  itself with the nature of desire. The man in the story is no more than an animal with base instincts but is attractive to women. The woman looks for something deeper, with  imagination but in the end is brought down by the more instinctive man. Lawrence again seems...

'Things' takes a cutting look at two 'idealistic' young Americans who travel Europe in an attempt to give their spoiled lives some meaning and in the end settle for suburban America, surrounded by their possessions, their 'things'.

‘The Woman Who Rode Away’ is a dark troubling story set in the wilderness of South America. What makes this story compelling is that the woman at the end of her personal tether and the Indians at the end of their cultural one, seek one another out for terrible, but perhaps predictable, uses. Each...

‘The Virgin and the Gipsy’ was published after Lawrence’s death in 1930. It tells the story of two sisters (perhaps based on Frieda Lawrence’s daughters) who live in a stultifying rectory with their dreadful grandmother , weak father and frustrated aunt. The girls are torn between the need...

In this beautifully observed study of a new marriage and the sexual tensions that run through it, Lawrence returns to his theme that happiness in marriage can only come with the submission of the woman to the man. The young wife strains against the bonds of being married and dallies with another man...

This new, full colour, history of York takes the reader from the foundation of York by the Romans in the first century AD to the present day, taking in Vikings, the Civil War and modern developments. When King George VI visited York in 1923 he proclaimed that 'The history of York is the history of England' and this ebook confirms that statement.

This collection contains all forty-two of Trollope’s known short stories which range over every continent from The West Indies to the shores of New Zealand. Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was born in London to a bankrupt barrister father and a mother who, as a well-known writer, supported...

This book of British Historical Documents covers the period from 325 B.C. to 2006 A.D. with a selection of over one hundred key documents from Pytheas of Massalia to Tony Blair's farewell speech to the Labour Party in 2006. Whilst concentrating on the written word, examples of paintings, coins, cartoons and photographs are included as examples of the historian's sources.