David Lawrence: 228 books

A varied and fascinating look at sin, confession and pardon in Judaism. Through a series of lively introductions and commentaries, almost forty contributors—men and women, scholars, rabbis, theologians and poets, representing all Jewish denominations—examine the history of confession in...

Dividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country's destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U.S. economic, cultural, and social structures still suffer the aftershocks of the nation's largest...

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...

'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.  

'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...

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...

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...

St Mawr is a short novel (or novella) written by D. H. Lawrence. It was first published in 1925. The heroine of the story, Lou Witt, abandons her sterile marriage and a brittle, cynical post-First World War England. Her sense of alienation is associated with her encounter with a high-spirited stallion,...

In "L'uomo che amava le isole" un uomo sogna di possedere un'isola, di divenire il signore di un piccolo mondo separato che sia creazione e specchio della sua personalità. Ma né gli uomini, né la natura si lasciano facilmente trasformare in specchio di qualcuno. In "L'uomo che era...

In "L'uomo che era morto" Lawrence si misura con la vicenda paradigmatica della storia dell'Occidente: la morte di Cristo. E lo fa alla sua maniera, fedele all'idea che l'unica trascendenza possibile risieda nella quotidiana rinascita all'universo delle cose, e che il peccato più grande...

Lou Witt ha venticinque anni e non la si può considerare bella, ma il suo aspetto particolare, la sua familiarità con le lingue straniere e una certa aria gipsy la rendono attraente. L’incontro con un cavallo purosangue di razza gallese, St. Mawr, creatura che incarna la dignità dell’esistere,...

Belle Irlandaise aux chairs épanouies, Kate Leslie séjourne au Mexique au début des années 1920 avec son cousin américain et poète. Elle y fait la connaissance d'un érudit, Don Ramón Carrasco, et d'un général, Don Viedma Cipriano, qui lui dévoileront un pays fascinant, en proie à une violence...

In the Second Best, Lawrence tells a story of two sisters who meet after being apart for a long time. The older, Frances, a girl of twenty-three and the beauty of the family comes from Liverpool back to the parents' house and spends a day with her younger sister, Anne, ‘a very...