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Whole, healthy, and vitally stimulating essays.
Here is Lawrence in his full glory, from sensing exquisite subliminal messages found in nature ("understanding the gestures with which the flowers open," as Hesse has put it), to expousing and expoundingsublimely ridiculous theories of education and behavior.

It is aLawrence I love.

Is he being tongue in cheek, or does he really believefirmly in everything that passes from his pen to paper?It is up to thereader to ponder and decide.

You just have to dip you toe anywhere intothis book of mostly unpublished essays and you will find a statement todraw you up short, questioning it, savoring it.My favorite essay in thiscollection is "On Being Religious."Being religious, you say. How can Lawrence know anything about that, earthy as his reputation is? But he does.And it is provocative.And it drives you to deeper thinkingwithin yourself.Lawrence says no sooner do we place God in what weconsider to be a proper setting for Him, than He moves.And we mustfollow, courageously, humbly, and enthusiastically if we are to split therock of our humanness and get a glimpse of the divine.

For a strikingpolitical view consider this excerpt from the essay "Democracy." "...Not people melted into a oneness: that is not the new Democracy. But people released into their single starry identity, each one distinctand incommutable."This "living self" of Lawrence's is theopposite of Whitman's "En-Masse" or "One Identity," anideal which Lawrence has no use for, since it subverts and dilutes theself, our most important possession.Lawrence has a love/hate relationshipwith Whitman, admiring his daring and adventurous spirit, but observingthat Whitman has pitched his tent on the slope that leads to Death ratherthan Life.

It is impossible to try to review the contents of thisfascinating book.In the first place the subjects of the essays range farand wide from nature to travel, from literature to education, from bookreviews to art, from philosophy to personalia.In the second placeLawrence does not often stay on the subject he uses as a title.His is analmost free-association mode of writing, and for this reason people wholike carefully-crafted paragraphs, leading to inescapably correctconclusions will probably not like these writings. They may contain as mucherror as they contain truth.

But this reader can forgive Lawrence, nay,even thank him for his excesses, because his heart and his mind are whole,and healthy, and vitally stimulating. ... Read more

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Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude Morel devotes her life to her sons. But conflict is inevitable when Paul seeks relationships with women to escape the suffocating grasp of his mother. As profoundly affecting today as it was nearly a century ago, this is the peerless Lawrence at his most personal.
* Includes a new introduction, chronology, and further reading ... Read more

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Excellent Read
i approached this book reluctantly as i felt that it was far to detached from my current surroundings to have a note of relevance. I was pleasantly shocked and rewarded for my efforts at broadening my range of classics, this novel is an amazing tale of love and the complexities of family in relation toit. If you haven't read it do so!

Sons and Lovers: D.H. Lawrence's Unforgettable tale of life in a Nottingham miner's home
DH Lawrence was born in Nottingham, England in 1885. He died at age 44 in Vence, France in 1930. In between those birth and death dates he created great fiction. His first big book and, probably, still his greatest is "Sons and Lovers."
The novel is highly autobiographical. Walter Morel is a crude, hard drinking miner who has no intellectual interests. He weds the etheral and lovely Gertrude. The couple have four children: William, Annie, Paul and Arthur. William, the eldest, is a good boy engaged to a flighty woman. He dies at an early age. The other children, with the noted exception of Paul, live mundane lives.
Paul is the Lawrence figure in the book. He is a momma's boy tied to her tight apron strings. Paul loves books, learning and the beauties of flowering nature. He has long affairs with the beautiful but shy Miriam who lives on a nearby farm and Clara Dawes (resembling Lawrence's wife Frieda Weekly). He marries neither woman leaving his boyhood home for adventures elsewhere. As the novel ends, Paul will continue his artistic work and his spiritual questing.
There is little action in this novel. It is, instead, a pyschological probing of such human affairs as familial and erotic love, death, suffering and the process of saying goodbye to childhood. It is a deeply moving book. One cannot refrain from crying at the death of Paul's saintly mother.
"Sons and Lovers" was written before Lawrence was scorned by critics and damaged by life. It is an excellent book which everyone should read if they are interested in life within a family. This book is rich with descriptions of nature and is a joy to read. Excellent! ... Read more

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This guide moves beyond the controversy surrounding Lady Chatterley's Lover to examine the prolific output of poetry, novels and non-fiction that made Lawrence a central figure in the Modernist movement. ... Read more

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This book gives the latest information on what to eat, what to avoid, problems with chemicals, supplements that help, non-dietary approaches, reasons for ADD and more! It takes you through some easy steps to eliminate the triggers for ADD/ADHD that you may consider before you give your child drugs to see if the symptoms go away. It is a simple read that touches on many subjects and gives the reader an eye opener into potential causes of ADD/ADHD. ... Read more

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Dissapointed for what I thought I was getting
When I first looked at this book at the bookstore I thought, Great,,my son has ADHD and was looking for a change in his diet to help.However the book just barely skims any one topic with a paragraph or two if you're lucky on anyone subject and has no depth to it at all.If you're just looking for the tip of the iceburg this is it.There is nothing more than an overview to any subject when it comes to amounts, dosages for supplements or nutrients and the amount needed.About half way through I quit reading it since it was of no help other than a broad spectrum overview.The Myth of Learning Disabilities..etc..by Robin Pauc I think, was much better at first glance and actually had dosages for supplements to know where to start and why this or that would help brain function etc.Hope this helps.

Good resource
**** I went through this book marking sections to go back over and re-read. Much of the book is geared toward explaining what A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. is, the symptoms, and possible contributing factors. I could not help but wonder WHY? Anyone looking up information on A.D.D. and/or A.D.H.D. already knows what it is. Chances are they have talked, in depth, to their doctor(s) already.

A.D.D. stands for Attention Deficit Disorder. The "H" stands for someone with A.D.D. and has hyperactivity with it. If you are looking for something with A.D.L.D. ("L" stands for a problem with "Learning" instead of a problem with "Hyperactivity".) Then this book is NOT for you. Nothing in this book even remotely touches A.D.L.D.

This book is put together to give an idea of how to treat the symptoms of A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. naturally. That does not mean you will successfully treat the disorder by what is in this book. But what parent would not want to read everything they can find on the subject and gain an idea of what else they could possibly do? This book will have you parents saying "Yeah! That is exactly what my child is like! I know exactly what you mean!" I may be a "reviewer" but I only agreed to review this book because my own son is A.D.H.D. Whether you give medication or not, this book is for you! The concerned parent! The one who does not want to miss a chance of helping your child have a better life, now and in the future!

This book has been a best seller for a long time. It is revised often, as all good medical non-fictions are. After all, scientists and doctors are learning new things every single day. The public needs to be educated. Here is your chance to BE educated. Do not let it pass!

The chapters include:

If You Want Something Different, You've Got to Do Something Different.
Going Through The Open Door
"But Why Do I Have ADD?"
The First Step Toward Changing Your Diet
What Should You Eat?
Tasty Recipes
The Importance of Detoxifying
Supplements That We Need
Nutrients That Help A.D.D. & A.D.H.D.
Non-Dietary Approaches to A.D.D. / A.D.H.D.
Resource Directory, Bibliography, Index. ****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

Good resource
(...)I went through this book marking sections to go back over and re-read. Much of the book is geared toward explaining what A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. is, the symptoms, and possible contributing factors. I could not help but wonder WHY? Anyone looking up information on A.D.D. and/or A.D.H.D. already knows what it is. Chances are they have talked, in depth, to their doctor(s) already.

A.D.D. stands for Attention Deficit Disorder. The "H" stands for someone with A.D.D. and has hyperactivity with it. If you are looking for something with A.D.L.D. ("L" stands for a problem with "Learning" instead of a problem with "Hyperactivity".) Then this book is NOT for you. Nothing in this book even remotely touches A.D.L.D.

This book is put together to give an idea of how to treat the symptoms of A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. naturally. That does not mean you will successfully treat the disorder by what is in this book. But what parent would not want to read everything they can find on the subject and gain an idea of what else they could possibly do? This book will have you parents saying "Yeah! That is exactly what my child is like! I know exactly what you mean!" I may be a "reviewer" but I only agreed to review this book because my own son is A.D.H.D. Whether you give medication or not, this book is for you! The concerned parent! The one who does not want to miss a chance of helping your child have a better life, now and in the future!

This book has been a best seller for a long time. It is revised often, as all good medical non-fictions are. After all, scientists and doctors are learning new things every single day. The public needs to be educated. Here is your chance to BE educated. Do not let it pass!

The chapters include:

If You Want Something Different, You've Got to Do Something Different.
Going Through The Open Door
"But Why Do I Have ADD?"
The First Step Toward Changing Your Diet
What Should You Eat?
Tasty Recipes
The Importance of Detoxifying
Supplements That We Need
Nutrients That Help A.D.D. & A.D.H.D.
Non-Dietary Approaches to A.D.D. / A.D.H.D.
Resource Directory, Bibliography, Index. (...)

The ADD and ADHD diet by Bell and Peiper
Many Doctors seem to have limited knowledge in the area of nutrition.This book gives one insight into possible alternatives to traditional medicines.Having family members with multiple allergies, I feel this book shows you other poosiblities.This was a great introduction to ADD and diet options.

Great book!
This book makes total sense. Why not try the nutritional approach to ADD it can't hurt. The book brings up some great points. One being that people with ADD/ADHD are more prone to food allergies. Allergies to everyday foods can contribute to negative behaviors assocaited with ADD. ... Read more

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This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow to the anonymous Voyage of St Brendan a whimsical mixture of fact and fantasy that describes a quest for paradise on earth these are vivid accounts of the profoundly spiritual and passionately heroic lives of Christian pioneers and saints. Both vital religious writings and a revealing insight into the reality of life at a formative time for the church, they describe an era of heroism and bitter conflict, and the rapid spread of the Christian faith. ... Read more

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Ian Myles Slater on: New and Expanded
This Penguin Classics volume has had a somewhat complicated history, and those who are familiar with earlier editions, and wondering whether to bother with the new one, or are not familiar with it at all, and are considering a used copy, should be aware of the differences.

It began as a shorter(206 page) Penguin Classics volume called (a little grandly) "Lives of the Saints," published in 1965. This version, edited and translated by J.F. Webb, contained the *The Voyage of Brendan,* Bede's*Life of Cuthbert* (from the prose version), and the *Life of Wilfrid,* by Eddius Stephanus. The first is a legendary account of the supposed sea voyages of an actual Irish abbot, and was one of the most popular works of the Middle Ages. The Venerable Bede's account of St. Cuthbert was commissioned by a monastic community devoted to his memory, and is based mainly on an earlier anonymous "Life," which Bede himself had earlier adapted in verse, and had drawn on for a much less miraculous account of its hero in his "History of the English Church." This complicated redaction history is not unusual, but for once we know that three of the versions came from the same hand. The "Life of Wilfrid" is a partisan account, by one of his followers, of a Northumbrian bishop who somehow managed to have almost as many disputes with his friends as with his enemies. (Bede also deals with Wilfrid in his "History," with considerably less enthusiasm than Eddius shows.)

This version had considerable internal coherence, as it illustrated the variety of literature found under the heading of "Lives of the Saints," and various roles as edifying entertainment, institutional piety, and partisan propaganda. The three texts are also roughly contemporary, and, as should be clear, reflect Irish and British traditions of hagiography. It was reprinted through at least the mid-1970s (I have a copy from 1975). The quality of the translations of all three is fairly high, although some readers initially entertained by Brendan's symbol-laden adventures in a visionary North Atlantic were probably let down by the increasingly terrestrial and political tone of the remainder.

"The Voyage of St. Brendan" (not to be confused with the Latin and Middle Irish "Lives" of this saint) is connected to a larger body of secular accounts of fantastic sea voyages from medieval Ireland (Maelduin, Bran, and others, some no longer extant). It is not clear which Irish tradition influenced the other, however. Bits and pieces of the Brendan version seem credible, but their connection with him may be as much an invention as the psalm-singing birds and terrestrial paradises he and his monks are said to encounter. Since the other Irish voyage stories (*immrama*) seem to have been unknown elsewhere, and the Latin "Voyage" was both copied and translated throughout Europe, it should be credited with a major role in making Irish literary motifs a part of the European tradition.

It probably is in the background of William Morris' story of voyages to marvelous islands, "The Water of the Wondrous Isles" (1895), very likely of the quest in "The Glittering Plain" (1891) and possibly of the setting of his "The Earthly Paradise" (1868-70). The "Navigatio" was certainly known to C.S. Lewis when he wrote "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader." Tolkien even wrote (and re-wrote) a poem about Brendan, so it is safe to conclude that the "Voyage" contributed something to "The Silmarillion," if not "Lord of the Rings."

(Two versions can be found in the "History of Middle-earth" Volume IX, "Sauron Defeated" as"The Death of St. Brendan" and "Imram" -- not included in the paperback, "The End of the Third Age" -- with a correction on page x of Volume X, "Morgoth's Ring." Thanks to Tolkien scholar David Bratman for pointing out that it had indeed been reprinted, and was no longer virtually unobtainable in a 1955 issue of a British magazine.)

In 1983, "Lives of the Saints" was incorporated in the "The Age of Bede," edited, with revisions and new translations, by D.H. Farmer. The new title fairly accurately reflected the time and locale of the texts, and ran to 256 pages, including maps and an index. "Brendan" was shifted to the end of the volume, and, following, the "Life of Wilfrid," Bede's *Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow* was inserted. This last is based on the records and traditions ofthe dual monastic foundation of which Bede was a member. This expanded form of the collection displayed Bede as a more sober institutional historian, recording the accomplishments, piety, and good works of the leaders of his own community. "Lives" lacks the accumulation of miracles which had already become connected with Cuthbert. "The Voyage of Brendan" seems increasingly atypical in the expanded collection, and I suspect some readers never found their way to it, which would be a pity. This edition was somewhat revised in 1988.

The current version appeared in 1998, and featured the insertion of the *Anonymous History of Abbot Ceolfrith* between ""Lives of the Abbots" and "The Voyage of St. Brendan." Ceolfrith was Bede's own abbot, and this biography illustrates the difference between Bede's spare and sober account and what could happen when pious memory and oral tradition took over. This brought the length to 278 pages.

I have acquired over the years copies of all three main versions (the 1975, 1983, and 1998 printings). Obviously, the latest has the widest range of material, and is the most up-to-date. The original "Lives of the Saints" is fine reading, but probably not a good bargain, but unless you feel need for the "Life of Ceolfrith" (or need the volume for a class), the earlier versions (1983, 1988) of "The Age of Bede" may be quite acceptable. If I was starting fresh, however, I'd probably go straight for the current edition, with its revised introduction, updated bibliography ("For Further Reading"), and, of course, an additional text, not readily available in translation elsewhere.

"A Fascinating Read"
This edition is comprised of the venerable Bede's "Life of Cuthbert" and the "Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow; the priest Eddius Stephanus' "Life of Wilfrid;"and also included is the "Voyage of St Brendan" and the "History of Abbot Ceolfrith."These works brim with saintly tails of healings and exorcisms, and of prophecies and portents.These books contain some interesting historical information as well: such as the spread of Christianity on the British Isles during the sixth and seventh centuries.The introduction provides both a comprehensive look at the individuals who wrote these books and a general picture of they age they lived in.These books will no doubt be a fascinating read for anyone interested in the history of Christianity in Britain, or just in good simple hagiography.

An interesting text from medieval England
In his Life of Cuthbert, Bede fills every page with a miracle due to the hands of the saint, whose powers of healing and prophecy are quite marvelous.

Somewhat more credible is Eddius' Life of Wilfrid, also fraught with miracles, but more educational in the secular lives of the saint, his ministries, the relationships between church and state, plus descriptions of three pilgrimmages to Rome, so that Wilfrid might appeal to the Pontiff to restore his monasteries, usurped by the crown.

An interesting look at the dealings at court in medieval England, the superstitions of the age, and a few hints at the powers of the Pope when England was monastic.

Bede's Church
St. Bede is mostly known for his history of the Church in England, but his Life of Cuthbert is a wonderful read.The language is simple and eloquent, and the translation is excellent.Medieval logic can seem overly simplistic to the modern mind, but Bede is straightforward and concise.In contrast, Eddius' Life of Wilfred seems downright wily.Perhaps this makes it all the more enjoyable, as we discern the writer's own agenda.Trying to find the personalities behind the facts and misrepresentations makes for one of the most enjoyable medieval texts I've read in a while. ... Read more

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ever changing and struggling emotions
I didn't find this book enjoyable, too much repetition for one reason and being a bit too dramatic for my taste, but I have to say it is definitely worth reading because of the complexities of its characters.The multiple protagonists with the most interesting and significant developement of Ursula's character seem to present differences in gender and in social/cultural contexts. I am particularly impressed by the depictions of female psychology that seem very sharp, insightful and modern.The author's courage to take the risk of writing about sensuality, desire and pursuit of independent thoughts by female protagonists definitely deserves a special place in literature.It is also interesting to note that nobody is clearly defined, or, rather only defined by their inner struggles that constantly seem to change. There is no closure, or resolutions or convictions, and all characters are complex in their own ways, which can be unsettling for some readers, but I find it more realistic.

Works like these may not market today, unfortunately [48]
Spanning three full generations, this book focuses primarily on the last generation's woman who was an esprit de vivre - emotionally, mentally and sexually.

Following the bloodlines of the Brangwen family, we learn how a common British citizen married a Polish widow, has his step-daughter Anna marry his brother's son (okay even in today's world as there are no blood commonalities), and watch their daughter fall in and out of love and deliver us ultimately to the rainbow.

The last Brangwen woman, Ursula,receives more than half of the novel's pages.She is a feisty cat who outgrows her puerility to become a reticent teenager and evolves eventually into an officious and deferential school teacher. "She was Woman, she was the whole of Woman in the human order."

Many of the independentcharacteristics of this woman of the 1930's are akin to the tour de force protagonist in Lady Chatterly's Lover.These are cool women of their day, and would be deemed even hip by today's standards. And, amazingly, many of the educational and vocational tracks of Ursula parallel the writer's youth - teaching for a period of time and education at Nottingham.

D.H. Lawrence's great gift may be his ability to envision things in a woman's perspective in such great detail. I often think I am reading something written by a woman. Having been brought up in separate sex educational facilities, and a "just past" 19th century mentality, one would believe this to be next to impossible.But, apparently it is not.In many respects, Lawrence can rival great novelists like the Bronte sisters whose personal feminine touches make their respective successful novels important even in today's literary world.

Works like these may not market today.Like a black and white film replete with slow dialogue and devoid of car chases and violence, this literature would not be embraced by today's readers.But, it involves detailed encounters of lesbian affairs and premarital sex with soldiers and unmarried pregnancies. Not entirely stale topics.

And, Ursula saw the world for what it is: "She knew that the sordid people who crept hard-scaled and separate on the face of the world's corruption were living still, that the rainbow was arched in their blood . . . would issue to a new germination, to a new growth, rising to the light and the wind and the clean rain of heaven."

If you have the opportunity, read this classic.

"For he was ridden by the awful sense of his own limitation."
The Rainbow is one of those great, startling books that exceeds its setting to provide universal lessons to the reader. These lessons are in the form of questions social, political, and of course philosophical, and while it does help to know some of the background Lawrence was working with to get the most out of the Rainbow, this isn't necessary, as my own readership can attest to. The Woman's Rights movement and post-colonial/industrial themes in the Rainbow are not necessarily as heavy when compared with Lady Chatterley's Lover or even Songs and Lovers, probably on one hand because the Rainbow is his first great experimental, or rather Modern, novel that focuses as much on thematic content as it does on style, which is a reason in itself you should pick up a copy. The Rainbow is like Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure on THC. On the other hand, it's not too wild and zany-it's more mild and subtle than something like Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, which furthers its accessibility.

And on that note, this book reaches out to you-the three generations of family throughout the book means there will definitely be some aspect of psychology/rites of passage/family interaction that you will be able to relate with. For me it was the elder Tom throughout the first part of the book, who couldn't figure out how to get his grip on life and ended up drinking all the time to deal with the pain, the darkness, before ultimately seeing a goal in romance, and then outwardly reaching and grasping that goal. The misogynistic trends of England during the late 19th century are definitely present in Lawrence's treatment of women, but as you go forward to the final protagonist, Ursula, and even before that Anna (Ursula's rebellious, feline-in-character mother), you start to realize both the social movements to liberate women and how exactly that came about in family environments with the downfall of the male presence in the household, the downfall of that archetype that could previously control but now more often than not fails.

So the universal lessons are present indeed, but keep in mind that this was a banned book because of its treatment of sexuality. This book, along with his other great works, ended up inspiring Henry Miller during his escapades throughout New York and France, being a key biographical influence that's revealed through Miller's letters to Anais Nin. But this book, which was "burned on the streets," doesn't nearly extend its fiery passion the way his later books do-but still, it's easy to see sections in the book where someone who puts their selves in the shoes of Lawrence can understand what he's doing, with the scenes of passionate love-making, as well as the mere description of two individuals kissing, which honestly appear more sacrilegious than the sex itself.

All in all, pick it up, stick with it, and you'll find yourself rewarded in many, poetic ways.

For fans of Thomas Hardy, other Lawrence books, Virginia Woolf, Henry Miller, James Joyce.

I lost my virginity to this book
This book really awakened my sexuality back in college.I was lifted and washed away on a tide of passionate longing, straight into the arms of a cute road crew guy who had been working on my street that summer.Before I read it, I was just another shy nerd.Afterward! I became the audacious sex goddess that you see today!O, beware this magick book, for it will unlock you!!!

Utterly Gorgeous Writing!!!
I had actually never read any of Lawrence's works before, though I had heard much praise about him. Saga type stories tend to interest me in the way you can trace growth in characters and really get into them, so I thought I would give this a try. So glad I did! Lawrence writes with some of the most beautifully lyrical and lush wording. Even when speaking of the dirty coal mines of England, you can almost feel the grime on your own skin, or when Ursula travels to the shore and plays in the surf you feel as if you're right there feeling and hearing the ocean on yourself. It reminded me somewhat of the way Fitzgerald writes. Also, seeing the growth and change in the different generations of one family was very interesting to me, especially the way that Lawrence as a man so keenly captured the struggles of girls developing into womanhood and accepting those changes and dealing with first loves and heartbreaks. If you come across this book, dont let it go!! I am currently reading this book's sequel Women in Love - let you know how it goes! ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Italy; Etruria; Sardinia (Italy); Etruscans; Description and travel; Lawrence, D. H; Sardina; Travel / General; Social Science / Archaeology; Fiction / Short Stories; Travel / Europe / Italy; ... Read more

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One of the greatst travel books ever written
Much is said of D.H. Lawrence's fiction, but we've mostly forgotten about his amazing travel writing.Twilight in Italy takes us on a foot tour of the Alps all the way down into the verdant gardens and sun soaked plaza's of Italy.Lawrence, as always, finds small stories here and there that not only share a sense of place but also relate the experience of a real traveler.If you are a fan of Paul Theroux or Pico Iyer you will immediately feel at home with this book.

Truly great writing
I found myself reading, rereading, and rereading aloud, passages from this beautiful work. Lawrence writes poetically--never mind the sportswriters' rule against repeating the same word in a sentence ("Angels," "Seraphs," "Halos")--this author uses "dark" numerous times in a single paragraph. I felt as though I were in northern Italy with him. Incredible. Also recommended are his other travel works, such as Sea and Sardinia and Mornings in Mexico.

Beautifully Written Travel Narrative
D.H. Lawrence is better known for his various novels, i.e., Women in Love; Lady Chatterly's Lover; and Sons and Lovers than for his travel writing.With that said, I highly recommend this book.Personally I love Lawrence's writing style and this particular book is exceptional even for Lawrence.You will feel as though you are there with him experiencing the moment he is describing.The people and places of Italy come alive through his prose.His writing moves, at times, from reality and physical descriptions to abstraction and philosophy, but it is so wonderfully written, you will cherish every word and never question the move from one to the other.Images abound in this work and the scenes he describes are beautifully sensual.I have read this work twice and plan on reading it numerous other times throughout my life. ... Read more

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D.H. Lawrence finished "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in 1928, but it was not published in an uncensored version until 1960.

Many contemporary critics of D.H. Lawrence viewed the Victorian love story as vulgar, and even pornographic. It was banned immediately upon publication in both the UK and the US. The obscenity trials which followed established legal precedents for literature which still endure.

At the heart, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" is a story about the invisible bonds between lovers, companions, and husbands and wives. Against this backdrop, Lawrence also explores the relationship between physical desire and spiritual fulfillment, often using sensual and explicitly sexual language.

This special edition of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" has been restored for a modern audience, including all previously censored material.


Excerpt from Lady Chatterley's Lover - Restored Modern Edition
Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved

“Supreme pleasure?” she said, looking up at him. “Is that sort of idiocy the supreme pleasure of the life of the mind? No, thank you! Give me the body. I believe the life of the body is a greater reality than the life of the mind: when the body is really awakened to life. But so many people, like your famous wind-machine, have only got minds tacked on to their physical corpses.”

He looked at her in wonder.

“The life of the body,” he said, “is just the life of the animals.”

“And that’s better than the life of professional corpses. But it’s not true! The human body is only just coming to real life. With the Greeks it gave a lovely flicker, then Plato and Aristotle killed it, and Jesus finished it off. But now the body is coming really to life, it is really rising from the tomb. And it will be a lovely, lovely life in the lovely universe, the life of the human body.” -- Ch. 16, p. 281

He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood. But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was illusory. The industrial noises broke the solitude, the sharp lights, though unseen, mocked it. A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits. And now he had taken the woman, and brought on himself a new cycle of pain and doom. For he knew by experience what it meant.

It was not woman’s fault, nor even love’s fault, nor the fault of sex. The fault lay there, out there, in those evil electric lights and diabolical rattlings of engines. There, in the world of the mechanical greedy, greedy mechanism and mechanized greed, sparkling with lights and gushing hot metal and roaring with traffic, there lay the vast evil thing, ready to destroy whatever did not conform. Soon it would destroy the wood, and the bluebells would spring no more. All vulnerable things must perish under the rolling and running of iron.

He thought with infinite tenderness of the woman. Poor forlorn thing, she was nicer than she knew, and oh! so much too nice for the tough lot she was in contact with. Poor thing, she too had some of the vulnerability of the wild hyacinths, she wasn’t all tough rubber-goods and platinum, like the modern girl. And they would do her in! As sure as life, they would do her in, as they do in all naturally tender life. Tender! Somewhere she was tender, tender with a tenderness of the growing hyacinths, something that has gone out of the celluloid women of today. But he would protect her with his heart for a little while. For a little while, before the insentient iron world and the Mammon of mechanized greed did them both in, her as well as him. -- Ch.10, p. 134 ... Read more

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A milestone in literary freedom
The book's reputation needs no comment. The book's importance is that having been challenged in the English court, it was found to be worthy of artistic expression and therefore, the challenge to its publication failed; a triumph in itself. The story oscillates between surpressed desire and eventual fufilment. The 'interesting parts' are just that. More significantly though, these parts are expressed not only explicitly at times but also, through the eyes of the Lover who is deeply in love. Any student of sensuality should start here. e-LOVE

Sensitive, Sensual and Seductive

This particular edition: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence - Restored Modern Edition; is remarkable on at least two counts.

First, it is an authentic reprint of the book D.H. Lawrence intended to publish and not an "edited edition" designed to protect the reader from "coarse language" or "unnecessary lewdness."It is a faithful copy of the original work that displays Lawrence's full command of the English language.

Second, this edition contains an insightful introduction by Laura Bonds that presents Lady Chatterley's Lover as the classic literature that it certainly is.This introduction discusses Lady Chatterley in a rational, honest and informed manner.It does more than just orient the reader, or fill a few pages at the beginning of the book, it quietly illuminates why D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley is considered to be great literature.

Of the various editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover, this one is the "real McCoy."It is well worth reading, again.

More interesting than merely pornographic
I know the type of reputation this book has. I was wondering how "shocking" it would be to a modern liberal girl. To be honest, it wasn't that shocking but it was unexpectedly moving and thought-provoking.

It takes quite a long while to wind up to the point, but that's because the author is taking the time to set up how a good woman could, in essence, cheat on her invalid husband. He wants these people to be real. He also spends quite a bit of time with philosophical conversations between characters, as well as in their heads. The amazing part is that - in a book most people read for the naughty reputation - those conversations only create an intellectual itch, leaving much of the topics unexplored and asking for more thought on the reader's part. There's a lot more depth here than is generally credited.

There are some stylistic things that were kind of jarring to me, such as his repetition of phrases and words, but I think that may have been his purpose, sort of rhythmic incantations almost.

I have to admit too that I'm a bit of a geek; I actually read book introductions. This one was especially good; I was looking forward to reading the book even more than I had been going in. I think I got a lot more out of the book, having had certain things pointed out to me to keep in mind as I read. If you're looking for an edition of Lady Chatterly's Lover, the introduction really sets this one apart. ... Read more

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D.H. Lawrence paints a portrait of an artist torn between affection for his mother and desire for two young beauties. Set in the coalfields of Lawrence's youth, the story follows Paul Morel's growth into manhood in a British working-class family. ... Read more

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Odeipus Redux
Paul Morel, the protagonist of Sons and Lovers, can only give his heart to one woman. And as long as his mother is alive, she will sabotage any relationship that Paul tries to form. Paul wavers with Miriam and Clara, two love interests, because he is unconditionally bound to his mother. He has seen how she has been mistreated and vows not to make her life harder. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers is a rehashing of Oedipus Rex, with richer, more developed characters whose fate is equally heartbreaking.

"I can't physically love you, any more than I can fly up like a skylark."
In what is considered to be D. H. Lawrence's most autobiographical novel, Lawrence's main character, Paul Morel, is a frail, artistic boy, having more in common with his mother than with his coal miner father.His mother had had some education before she married the once-attractive Walter Morel, but he eventually succumbed to alcohol and his bleak life in the pits.When Paul's older brother, who became the mainstay of the family, left for London and later died, his mother transferred her dependence from him to Paul.

Written in 1913, the novel was shocking at the time, dealing as it does with an unhealthy relationship between mother and son, leading to the son's subsequent inability to love women his own age.Having only scorn for her wayward and irresponsible husband, his mother needs Paul for emotional support.When Paul begins to develop a love for Miriam Lievers, a neighbor with whom he has been close friends since childhood, his mother becomes even more possessive.A "spiritual" girl, Paul comes to believe that even though Miriam has "given" herself to him, she does not love from an inner need, that at heart she is "a nun," and that her passion is more dutiful than real.Since he himself is still tied to his mother, emotionally, his own ability to love fully is also compromised.

His next relationship, with Clara Dawes, a married woman separated from her husband, is far more passionate, but Clara is also far more liberated than Miriam, and she demands an emotional commitment from him in return.It is not until his mother's death, however, that Paul realizes the extent to which his mother has truly controlled his heart and soul, leaving him far more bereft than is normal for loving sons.

A novel which probes the inner psyche of Paul Morel, Sons and Lovers is a novel which speaks directly to the modern reader, eliciting both sympathy and empathy as Paul tries to become his own man.Lawrence's ability to tap into universal feelings and needs elevates this novel into a sensitive study of love in all its forms, not just in the case of Paul Morel, but on a deeper, grander scale.Though the novel is almost a hundred years old, it is as fresh and rewarding to read today as a contemporary novel, even when one considers the mores and prohibitions of that time period.Lawrence, ahead of his time, has created one of the enduring classics of English literature, one which supersedes time and place. nMary Whipple

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This seductive and engaging biography uncomfortable in his own skin. Lawrence's fascination with the body and his determination to articulate its every experience brought about his notorious reputation, and ultimately, his literary redemption. What emerges in John Worthen's portrait is an intimate and absolutely compelling study of an individual in angry revolt against his class, culture, and country--a man passionately struggling to live in accordance with his beliefs. ... Read more

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Candid, revealing, throughly excellent bio
Using extensive quotations from Lawrence's letters, and from Frieda's biography of L., John Worthen goes far beyond the usual more sensational attempts to delve into DHL.As an unabashed Lawrence lover myself, I loved Worthen's continual presentation of differing points of view which creates a tone of fairness.For, after all, DHL suffered continual pressures his entire life, both from within and without.From his own driving soul's desire for healing -- not simply his own healing but that of his world; from the Victorian world's drive to imprison the instinctual drives themselves, the inevitable end result of idealistic Christianity.DHL fought a fierce lifelong battle for truth and freedom, and I greatly appreciate Mr. Worthen's understanding here!

I do believe that Mr. Worthen's expositions of such works as Sons and Lovers, Women In Love, and others, will help me go back and reread with greater understanding.

There are countless tidbits to enjoy, as DHL exclaiming about the seated Buddha he saw in Ceylon, "Oh, how I wish he would stand up!"

Mr. Worthen does not flinch from the difficulties of DHL's marriage with Frieda, his controversial portraits of friends and acquaintances in his novels and stories, his supposed "fascism" (which I doubt), and more.Courageously, tenderly, sympathetically but without cloying idolatry, Mr. Worthen presents us the finest bio of DHL that I have come across in many a year.

David Herbert Lawrence: A coalminer's son who became a famous author of literary classics
David Herbert Lawrence was born to a miner in the coalmining community of Eastwood located eight miles from Nottingham.The village is located in the middle of what was once Sherwood Forrest deep in the English Midlands. When Lawrence was born the area was an ugly coalmining region. His mother Lydia made the sickly, thin, bookish boy her favorite. His father Arthur was a near-illiterate spending time in the pub. The family had several children who went on to live routine lives. Only the genius of Lawrence burns brightly.
Lawrence was always an outsider, lonely wanderer. He taught school for several years even though he hated it. He graduated from Nottingham College with a certificate in teaching but did not go on for a BA degree.
Lawrence is known for the sexual explicit and sensual prose of such classic novels as : "The Rainbow", "Sons and Lovers."; "Women in Love"; "Kangaroo", "The Virgin and the Gypsy," and such short stories as "The Fox." His most famous book is "Lady Chatterly's Lover" which was banned in Britain until 1960. This sexy love story sold more than all of his other works combined! He also wrote travel essays, literary criticism and reams of poetry. Lawrence is one of those authors who could write anywhere about almost anything. His chief themes were:
a. The need for honest and open love between the sexes. He was adept at describing the feeling a woman has during lovemaking.
b. The destruction of nature and the natural harmony of life through crass industrialism and materialistic pursuit of money.
c. His hatred of the rigid English class system which was restrictive and hypocritical.
Lawrence has been accused of anti-semitism and the need for meen to be superior in relationships with women. Worthen is fair in exploring these attitudes. Lawrence had many characters flaws. He could be explosively angry, often hit women and could be cruel to animals. He could also be charming, loving and kind. A man of contradictions not easily pigeonholed.
Lawrence had an active sex life. He forsook the girl who loved him Jessie Chambers and several other lasses in the Nottingham region. He ran away with Frieda Richtofen Chambers who left her husband and three children to live with him. Though the two never divorced they were both unfaithful engaging in several affairs. Frieda was a big, strong German woman distantly related to the Red Baron. During World War I the British thought she might be a spy; the Lawrences were closely watched during this horrible time by the British authorities.
Lawrence was a Gypsy who lived in England, Italy, New Mexico, Mexico, France and Ceylon. He died at the age of 44 due to advanced tuberculosis.
He was poor and his books were out of favor at the time of his death.
John Worthen is a British scholar who has done a fine job of following Lawrence on the many stops he made across the globe in a complex life. Lawrence was a great writer due to the power, emotion and descriptive brilliance of his sparkling prose. This comprehensive biography is worth time and money.

Portrait of the artist as a courageous invalid
In reading D. H. Lawrence's SONS AND LOVERS I was struck by how much it cut to the core, and was curious as to how closely autobiographical the story was. That led me to an an excellent excerpt from this book that is available on the Web, that tells about Lawrence's nostalgia for his youth when he spent so much time at the Haggs farm (Leivers farm in SONS AND LOVERS). That excerpt as well as other material told me that Lawrence's fiction about this youthful part of his life was very thinly disguised.

The time and circumstances in which Lawrence lived seem so different from today. He grew up in Victorian England, the son of a coal miner, in the industrial age before the heyday of the automobile and all the communicative devices that have so changed our lives. From an early age it was evident that he did not have the physical capacity to follow his father's footsteps if he ever wanted to, which apparently he never did. Contrary to the toughened practicality of physical labor, he found refuge in books, which put him at odds with the rough and tumble ways of many of his peers, who later recalled that he preferred to play with girls. His coming of age involved the inner conflict presented by his mother, who was strong and imparted on him mental strength necessary to survive and even flourish despite being very susceptible to illness, but who also imparted demands as from one whose life's longings had been thwarted.

I don't know if I quite buy the author's emphasis of Lawrence as the Outsider, at least not in terms of his legacy. Certainly, the man marched to the tune of a different drummer. No doubt he had faults, but the excesses, which have been noted from evidence extracted from his writing, need to be measured against the strict conformity of the Victorian Age. Perhaps his greatest work, THE RAINBOW, was banned for reasons that seem laughable by comparison to today. Certainly, he exhibited a ruthlessness in being a writer, as in his relations with Jessie Chambers, which would make many a would-be writer wonder if it was all worth it; but writing about his experiences, whether they were thinly disguised or not, was an obsession, and became a psychological necessity. At a certain point, he really could not be anything but a writer, and it became his means of self-discovery, certainly a different tack from most people of the time who were marching blindly into battle or blindly into debilitating jobs. He persisted despite the fact that for years he could barely make a living and constantly had to depend on the kindness of friends and relatives. If anything, that dependence despite his overall independence, showed that he was more of an insider, one who had gained acceptance in the path he chose to follow. No doubt, his habitual exile and publishing difficulties depict him as the Outsider, but when it came down to it, he showed himself to be a courageous human being especially in facing a debilitating illness and refusing self-pity.

The best one- volume biography
Benjamin Kunkel reviews this work very favorably in 'The New Yorker'. It is he maintains the best one- volume biography of Lawrence that has as yet been written. In the key passage of his review Kunkel cites a letter of Lawrence as containing the heart of his perception of life. His commentary then follows:

"The real way of living is to answer to one's wants. Not "I want to light up with my intelligence as many things as possible" but "For the living of my full flame-I want that liberty, I want that woman, I want that pound of peaches, I want to go to sleep, I want to go to the pub and have a good time, I want to look abeastly swell today, I want to kiss that girl, I want to insult that man." Instead of that . . . we talk about some sort of ideas. I'm like Carlyle, who, they say, wrote 50 volumes on the value of silence.

Kunkel interprets this passage as follows:
"Everything is here; in half a paragraph Lawrence comprehends his life. There is the sense, gained from Frieda, of having no obligations but to desire; the virtually pre-Socratic tendency to see all life as a species of flame (in Lawrence, to be alive is always described as being on fire); the tone simultaneously of great casualness and authority; the pleasure taken in vituperation ("I want to insult that man"); and, of course, the awareness that to marshal all one's eloquence, education, and discipline in defense of mute, dark, instinctual life is a crowning paradox, like Carlyle with his fifty volumes on silence."

Kunkel goes on then to note how great a part the theme of Lawrence's isolation plays in this biography. Isolated from his place of birth, from his family, from the aristocratic dabblers in the world of art he was continually meeting up with. Isolated from social conventions. Isolated from conventional morality, and from an ordinary place of home. Isolated by the frailty of his body , and by the frequent rejection of the literary establishment. Isolated too from the mores of his time.

This focusing on the personal life drama does not however help us solve the one real mystery connected with Lawrence, the fact of his literary genius.
It too perhaps goes too far in excusing Lawrence's Fascism, for Fascism turned out to be something other than the eccentric privilege of a few misguided idealists, and instead turned into one of the most murderous movements in human history.
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First published in 1923, this anthology provides a cross-section of Lawrence's writing on American literature. It includes landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. The volume offers the final 1923 version of the text in a newly corrected and uncensored form, and earlier (often very different) versions of many of the essays, and other materials (including four versions of Lawrence's pioneering essay on Whitman). ... Read more

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The essential function of art is moral
In this analysis of (not always) well-known classic US authors D. H. Lawrence gives his personal, but very revealing, view on the heart of the American soul, the old and the new moralities and the cardinal aspects of the gender battle. These brilliant essays tell also a lot about the author himself and the backgrounds of his life vision.

David Herbert Lawrence
This world-class author was highly influenced by Nietzsche (rejection of the Christian slave and anti-senses morality, his anti-democratic stance and his misogyny) and Freud (the un- and subconscious).

The old and the new moralities
In the old morality, the `soul' of man stands above the `flesh'. In the new morality, the `soul' `sits in the dark limbs, in the body of the prostitute, in the sick flesh of the syphilitic'.

American soul
`The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer'.
The essential American action is destruction.
The spirit of the place is freedom to lynch anybody who is not one of them (racism).
The labor class is obedient because of the continual influx of more servile Europeans.

American literature
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN `doesn't let me have a soul of my own. He says that I am nothing but a servant of mankind, a galley-slave.' But he was also a destroyer: `Extirpate the savages to make room for the cultivators of the earth.'
HECTOR ST JOHN DE CREVECOEUR (`Letters from an American Farmer') shows that there are no `Sweet Children of Nature. All fraternity and equality go up in smoke and his ideal of pure sweet goodness along with it.'
For JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, there can be no blood-mixing between the white and the red race. His world is a paradise for killers (`The Deerslayer', `The Last of the Mohicans').
EDGAR ALLAN POE is fascinated by inquisition, torture and murder. For him, a woman is `a vulture of stern passion'. `Drugs, women, self-destruction are adventurers in the horrible passages of the human soul.'
In NATHANAEL HAWTHORNE's `The Scarlet Letter', the male protagonist is `a spiritual fornicator and a liar'. The female protagonist is the destroyer of the white consciousness, of the old moral, of spiritual love.
DANA's `Two Years before the Mast' depicts the sea as the cosmic enemy, as the great disintegrating force, leaving the human nerves blank.
HERMAN MELVILLE hated the white world and searched for a savage Eden (`Typee'). But, he came to understand that `civilized' people can't go back. `Moby Dick', the white whale, represents `the deepest blood-being of the white race', `that lonely phallic monster of the individual you.' The whale is hunted by our old consciousness. His death is a suicide.
WALT WHITMAN is the first author to break down the old morality. He gives the soul its own life, a life of sympathy. But he misinterprets sympathy as a feeling `for', not as a feeling `with'. His individual self leaked out of him into the universe (`Democracy', `En Masse', `No Identity').

These remarkable interpretations and insights are a must read of all lovers of world and US literature.

hidden treasure
delightful.the essay on moby dick alone is worth the read.has stayed fresh in my memories for over 20 years.lawrence may have been sobering out in taos, but his genuis was burning bright.remember, the works he was praising were not yet completely "canonical."lawrence was a key signpost.vivid and sensitive, imagistic appreciations.

Sweatin' To The Oldies with D.H. Lawrence
There are three reasons to read STUDIES IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE by D.H. Lawrence.First: to better understand Lawrence and his themes.Second: to be entertained.Criticism is rarely rendered with so much passion, wit and clarity. Third: to experience American culture from an outsider's perspective, a very knowledgeable though albeit highly opinionated perspective (which makes for that entertainment value).

DHL's prevailing theory is that to emerge as a distinct cultural, as well as distinct political entity free from Europe, America had to go through some growing pains before arriving at its authentic self.America had to kill off the European in its heart. He starts out with Ben Franklin, whom he gives a real trouncing for the overly self-conscious act of assigning an American character with a shopping list of virtues.(It should come as no surprise that DHL especially has trouble with "chastity.") Ben may be generating a fake, a lie, but he marks the beginning of an effort to break with the old homeland, Europe.Hector St. John de Crevecoeur is next in line for a beating.He moved his unfortunate family to the frontier, wrote the letters glowing with the accounts of the American Dream amongst the nature and the "savages" and then went back to France to revel in literary salons.When he returned, the wife and farm had met brutal ends in that American dream in which he had left them, so he settled in New York City.DHL screams, "Fake!"But Crevecoeur did announce the concept of an ideal tied to the unique attributes of the new world.

DHL takes us through Cooper, Poe and Hawthorne, who begin to make progress (and also give DHL space to expound in ways that have annoyed his feminist critics), and onto Dana (TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST) and Melville, who go to sea to find themselves and their American consciousness.It is Melville who smashes the old mold forever and makes way for Whitman to plow through with a new road, singing that song of self.

We get the tour of the past; we get, obliquely, a tour of post World War I intellectual preoccupations; and we get DHL being DHL at full throttle.

Always interesting but often wrong
This passionate brief survey of American Literature contains much spontaneous flowing masterful and original writing. Lawrence famous 'Trust the teller not the tale' is the motto of the work. It argues that the true creative work takes on a life of its ownthat even its creator cannot completely define and control.
Perhaps the most famous essay in this book is Lawrence's hatchet- job of Ben Franklin who he found to be a spiteful, penny- pinching, calculating dead soul. In fact old Ben could be in certain places as lively and probably more lively than Lawrence himself.
What however is most important is that Lawrence in this work understands the great subterranean and mysterious genius of a kindred spirit for him, the literary creator of the Great White Whale.

Trust the teller along with the tale
This is a small book yet Lawrence's genius enables him to see big things in it, especially about those large writers like Melville he felt an affinity to. "Trust the tale and not the teller" is one of his motto's here and he tries to show how the great works go beyond the intentions of their creators.
One objection. He is especially hard on Franklin who he makes into a priggish, petty prune of a minor moralist. Franklin was a many - sided genius who was open to kind of creation Lawrence had no sense of. ... Read more

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Separation Anxiety
This book made it to Time's Top 100 List of the best fiction of the 20th century. While the prose has merit, I don't quite see why it placed so high on the list nor is this edition the best. There is no table of contents and the chapter distinctions are poor; so too is the editing as there are many typos. Despite all that, Lawrence's primitively modernist novel is well-constructed and very innovative for its time. All in all, this book is worth the read. ... Read more

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In Women in Love (1920), Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen who first appeared in Lawrence's earlier novel, The Rainbow, take center stage as Lawrence explores their growth and development in their relationships with two powerful men, Rupert Birkin and his friend Gerald Crich. A novel of regeneration and dark, destructive human passion, Women in Love reflects the impact on Lawrence of the First World War in the potential both for annihilation and salvation of the self. A full introduction and detailed notes offer an illuminating discourse on one of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative, and unsettling works. ... Read more

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The uncensored and best edition of this erotic classic...
"Nothingness!To accept the great nothingness of life seemed to be the one end of living.All the many busy and important little things that make up the grand sum-total of nothingness!"

Constance Chatterley had never thought much about sex until she had to live without it.Her husband, a respectable nobleman, returns from the first World War paralyzed from the waist down.Now Lady Chatterley has to care for her disabled husband and live a passionless, pointless existence.Clifford settles as a writer, seeking what he calls the "Bitch Goddess" of success.He also tells his wife that he wants to have a child, even if she has to sleep with another man in order to have one.Her life couldn't be emptier and lonelier.The only things going for her are the fascinating discussions between Clifford and his friends.But then things change when she meets the somewhat taciturn gamekeeper.A tumultuous and intense affair ensue between the gamekeeper and his mistress.But will Lady Chatterley find happiness and satisfaction in living two separate lives?Will she find the fulfillment she needs, or will she be left all the more bereft?

First published in 1927, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's most accomplished novel.He succeeds in bringing out the psychological and emotional implications brought on from a sexual affair.He also questions morality and people's individual take on sexuality.The Second Lady Chatterley's Lover is the uncensored edition -- the version that was never intended to be shown.I couldn't put it down.This is one of the most intelligent erotic novels I have ever read.No wonder this is such a celebrated classic.It opened the doors to authors like Anais Nin (Delta of Venus) and Pauline Reage (The Story of O).I'm glad I got a copy of this edition.I will keep it in my library for future rereads. ... Read more

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Seven of the best Lawrence stories, each turning on some facet of sexual feeling, attitude or convention. "The Prussian Officer" focuses on an aristocratic captain’s homoerotic obsession for his young orderly. "The Shadow in the Rose Garden" and "The White Stocking" deal with sexual jealousy. "Daughters of the Vicar" brilliantly describes two exceedingly class-conscious mating rituals. "The Christening," "Second Best" and "Odour of Chrysanthemums" etch memorable portraits of a family’s shame at an illegitimate birth, a country courtship and a brutish marriage abbreviated by death. Note.
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The Rocking Horse Winner
D.H. Lawrence was a superb short story writer, and The Rocking Horse Winner is perhaps one of the greatest short stories ever written.The only other short story that is its equal is The Bet by Anton Chekhov.I would say more but that would be spoiling it for you.Let it suffice to say that Lawrence is now a much overlooked writer, however, his message of how modern industry is destroying all that is vital and natural in mankind is as poignant today as when he first wrote about it almost 100 years ago!So what's new?

SO? WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT??
I RECENTLY TRIED TO 'GET THROUGH' VOLUME 1 OF LAWRENCES SHORT STORIES. I LOVE HIS WRITING. IT'S BEAUTIFUL AND FILLED WITH WILD SENSUAL IMAGES. HOWEVER, WHEN I FINISH EACH STORY, I WONDER: SO WHAT??? WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT??? EACH STORY SEEMS TO BE SIMPLY A SLICE OF LIFE, MANY DEALING WITH MAN/WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS. BUT AT THE END OF EACH, I DID NOT FEEL THAT I HAD LEARNED OR GAINED ANYTHING FROM THE READING. ALSO, MOST DID NOT HOLD MY ATTENTION - EXCEPT FOR THE BEAUTIFUL USE OF LANGUAGE AND SENSE IMAGERY.

Worth A Read
Honestly, I've never been an avid reader of DH Lawrence. This is not to say, I dislike him as a writer.Not true.The literature that I have read by him, most I've found interesting and good.It had been a while since Iread any DH, until I picked up SELECTED SHORT STORIES.I picked it upprimarily for the story "The Prussian Officer."I wasn'tdisappointed with the short story at all.It's quite a homoerotic storyabout a Captain and his subordinate, telling of DH and his other work inmany ways. The story is compelling, yet tragic, which I liked. The otherstories that followed didn't quite compare.I found the other's dry andverbose (especially "Daughters of the Vicar").I'd recommendthis collection just for the "The Prussian Officer." ... Read more

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'A critic must be able to feel the impact of a work of art in all its complexity and force. To do so, he must be a man of force and complexity himself...' 'A critic must be emotionally alive in every fibre, intellectually capable and skilful in essential logic, and then morally very honest.' These comments by D. H. Lawrence are as close a description as any of himself as a critic. They come from his essay on fellow novelist John Galsworthy, and there are many other pieces on novels and novelists in this selection. But Lawrence's range of genres extends to poetry and plays and paintings, and his critical writing encompasses an enormous variety of subjects, from Aeschylus and the Apocalypse to symbolism and syphilis, for his nterests are philosophical , psychological, religious, moral, sociological, historical and cultural as well as literary and artistic. This selection is a treasure-trove of 'thought adventures' by one of literature's liveliest critical spirits. ... Read more

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Instincts, society and art
In these impressive essays, D.H. Lawrence explains masterfully his vision on sex, society and art. His criticism throws a sharp light on American and English novelists, on the painter Paul Cézanne and his own masterpieces.

Syphilis, society, Puritanism, art
The appearance of syphilis gave a fearful blow to man's sexual life. The illness was at least partly responsible for the rise of Puritanism. As a real horror-terror element, it attacked frontally man's deepest instincts. Man became afraid of his body and came to hate it. He turned into an idea, a social and political entity, a fleshless, cold, dead (without instincts) organism.
In art, vision became more optical, less intuitive. Painting became `physical' again with Paul Cézanne's still-life compositions (apples).

Pornography
Pornography is an attempt to insult the sex instinct, to do dirt on it. For pornographic people, the sex flow and the excrement flow are the same.
The only way to stop the terrible mental problems in sex matters is to come out quite simply and naturally into the open with it.

Art, the novel, poetry, criticism
Lawrence's text, `When Van Gogh paints sunflowers, he achieves the vivid relation between man and the sunflower. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself', is a precursor of R. Magritte's `Ceci n'est pas une pipe'.
For D. H. Lawrence, the novel is the perfect medium for revealing the changing rainbow of our living relationships. It is the book of life and can help us to live.
He has a Schopenhauerian vision on poetry. The essential quality of a poem should be the revelation of a new world within the known world, within the inner and outer chaos.
For criticism, his touchstone is emotion. Art should be judged by its emotional effect.

English literature (Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy)
Thomas Hardy's main theme is the fight of the individual against the social code (the Law). Those who consider their community as a walled prison and who transgress its social order, die. Those who remain within the accepted conventions are good, safe and happy.
Not one of John Galsworthy's characters seems to be a really vivid human being. They are castrated social beings who follow the social code. For them, love is feeling `a hungry for her', as if she were a beefsteak.

American literature (Walt Whitman, Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville)
Walt Whitman's poetry sings about man's accession into wholeness (Hegel, LR). He is drunk with the strange wine of infinitude, of supreme spiritual consciousness. In his own person he becomes the whole universe. The way to Allness can be attained through endless sympathy (giving oneself), through the love between comrades, through manly love.
For Fenimore Cooper, the social code forbids blood-mixing between the white and the red race. His world is a paradise for killers (`The Deerslayer', `The Last of the Mohicans').
Herman Melville hates the puritan white world and looks for a savage Eden (`Typee'). But, he understands that `civilized' people can't go back. `Moby Dick', the white whale, represents `the deepest blood-being of the white race', `that lonely phallic monster of the individual you'. The death of the whale represents the suicide of the white man.

These masterful essays are a must read for all lovers of world class criticism and for all D.H. Lawrence fans.
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These three novellas explore human relationships and the devastating results of war. In TheFox, a predator targets two young women living on a small farm during the First World War.The Captain’s Doll explores the complex relationship between a German countess and a married Scottish soldier in occupied Germany. In The Ladybird, a wounded prisoner of war has a disturbing influence on the Englishwoman who visits him in the hospital.

* Uses the restored texts of the Cambridge edition
* Includes a new introduction, chronology, and further reading ... Read more

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The Fox; The Captain's Doll: The Ladybird ( Penguin Classics)
A classic collection of short stories by D H Lawrence, a true literary genius whose prose spans the ages. The Fox stands out as a rich descriptive tale of two women living on a farm whose compliment of animals are primarily female as well. A man shows up, hunting foxes and stirs sexual urges within the loveless women causing the women's sedate feminine environment to become heated and unstable. Lawrence, with a sparkling eye for detail and subtle nuance weaves a tale rich in allegory and sexual symbolism that captivates the reader while exposing the human instinctual animal by stripping away the cultural facade

Masterful follow up novellas
These three novellas (each 70+/- pages) are packed with the detailed structure and depth Lawrence displayed in his masterwork novels. Each is in essence a concentrated variation of the more familiar works, exploring the interior emotions and spirits of the various characters in unconventional or transitory settings.

Though not difficult, these stories should be read slowly to appreciate everything Lawrence is conveying, from the spare dialogue, the reflected and projected emotions, the environment and related symbols, to the historical background and setting.

While each could be extended or more fully developed (which Lawrence himself did in revising "The Fox") there's plenty of value in the characters and plots as they are.

The Fox/The Captain's Doll/The Ladybird: Three excellent post World War I signs of wasteland loss and angst by DH Lawrence
Penguin is reissuing all of the D.H. Lawrence works in an attractive new format featuring hauntingly beautiful cover artistic works.
The first story is this slim volume is "The Fox" which has been made into a motion picture. It is the most famous of the stories.
The Fox deals with two young ladies named March and Banfield who live together on a scruffy dairy farm raising cattle and chickens. Their lives are bleak. It never becomes overt whether they are lesbians although they do sleep in the same room.
Into their lives comes a young soldier named Grenfel. His family once owned the old farm house in which the young ladies reside. Grenfel resembles a fox with his red hair and hunting ability.He slays the old fox who has been ravaging the hencoop. Grenfel swears love for March and turns the girl against the thin and ill Banfield. A tree is felled by Grenfel killing Banfield and leading to possible marriage with March. This is a complex triangle with Lawrence's close observation of nature and human psychology. It is subject to many interpretations. Without question the bleak story reflects the sadness and despair evident at the end of the Grreat War.
The Captain's Doll is another complex tale. A former German countess makes her living making dolls. She is in love with an English officer who is married with two children. One day Major Hepburn's foolish wife arrives from England. She believes he is having an affair with the German mistress' Hannele's business associate. The wife falls out of a window and is killed. Hepburn returns to England meeting Hannele years later at a German ski resort. Hannele plans to marry a fat and old Austrian. When she and Hepburn meet their fiery love is rekindled. They plan on marrying as the story ends. The major symbol is the Doll which has been fashioned by Hannele to look like Hepburn. She is a feminist who demands to be loved as an equal partner; he refuses to be a doll or object of adoration by any woman. When he discovers that the doll has been sold by Hennele they agree to wed. The image of the cold glacier and the wintry scenes are wasteland imagery. The characters seem to exist in a deadly dreamlike state. The war has blasted all hopes for the idyllic days of pre-1914 Europe. Lawrence's vision is a dark one. There is hope only in love and in the peace of death.
The Ladybird deals with a young aristocratic woman named Lady Daphne who becomes infatuated with a German officer prisoner of war named Count Dioys (he represents raw passion and love as did the Greek god Dionysus). Daphne's husband Basil is a POW. She has lost two brothers in the war and has given birth to a stillborn child. She visits Dioys who has given her a thimble representing his family. At the bottom of the thimble is a serpent and at the top a ladybird or ladybug. the snake of temptation and violent love invades the sterile hothouse soul of Daphne. She remains wed to Basil in her postwar life but saves the nights for passinate love for Dioys. He leaves England to return to his family but the promise of their eternal love abides.

The Doll's Captain
In " The Captain's Doll" the reader experiences a relationship that is not well-accepted by society. The Captain Hepburn and his mistress Hannele. The love in an affair is not a twosided love, usually one person ends up giving themselves more than the other person involved.Hannele questions herself throughout her relationship with the Captain and the intergery of their love. He does not want to love her and all she wants to do is love him.The story is very easy to read and short. It is a great book and I truly recommend it.

The title fits the content
I had to read this book for a literature class, and it was chosen to be our favorite by far.The discussions deepened from lesbians,co-dependancy, and control.Of the three main characters we actually foundfive.Each lady has a different personality depending on what name she iscalled by.We may be reaching but it was interesting backing it up withthe text.If you enjoy D.H. Lawrence you will love this novella. ... Read more

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Brilliant reworkings of Euripides' classic dramas by the great modernist poet H.D., now available in one volume.

H.D.'s 1927 adaptation of Euripides's Hippolytus Temporizes and her 1937 translation of Ion appeared midpoint in her career. These two verse dramas can both be considered as "freely adapted" from plays by Euripides; they constitute a commentary in action, and in this regard resemble the Oedipus plays of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound's Women of Trachis.

In the first play, the young man Hippolytus is obsessed with the virgin goddess Artemis and discovers the depth of his passion with the sensual Phaedra, his disguised stepmother: this experience brings self-knowledge and death. The heroine Kreousa in Ion attempts to poison Ion when she fails to recognize him as her son by Apollo and sees instead an outsider and possible usurper of her throne.

H.D.'s translations of the Greek were greatly admired by T. S. Eliot. In her reworkings, she creates modern versions of classic plays, enabling her to explore her favorite poetic themes. Sigmund Freud (with whom H.D. was undergoing analysis just before she embarked on Ion) commended her translations; and after writing them, H.D. was able to go on to write Helen in Egypt, "a sweeping epic of healing and integration." These marvelous versions attest to H.D.'s claim that "the lines of this Greek poet (and all Greek poets if we have but the clue) are today as vivid and as fresh as they ever were." ... Read more