Books by D H Lawrence

Book Synopsis'Everyone who met him commented on the arresting power of Lawrence's bright and sharp blue eyes, and the beard he later grew would be as red as a fox's brush, but it was not his appearance that Ford was describing. It was his menace' Frances Wilson, from her Introduction to The Man Who Loves Islands------------------------------------------------The Man Who Loved Islands presents Lawrence's skilled, intimate and lively portraits of humanity. In the title story a man buys a ninety-nine year lease on an island and finds himself cast off in its timeless world; in 'The Last Laugh' a couple are confronted with uncanny spectral visions, and an eerie faceless laugh; in 'The Fox' two women maintaining a farm feel the dark shadows of war, and a cunning creature threatens to destroy their livelihood. The stories in this collection are about what the characters know and do not know - about themselves, one another, and the circumambient universe.

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Book SynopsisYou could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of burning curiosity, expansive lyricism, odd humor, and radical intelligence, equaled, perhaps, only by Virginia Woolf. Here Geoff Dyer, one of the finest essayists of our day, draws on the whole range of Lawrence’s published essays to reintroduce him to a new generation of readers for whom the essay has become an important genre. We get Lawrence the book reviewer, writing about Death in Venice and welcoming Ernest Hemingway; Lawrence the travel writer, in Mexico and New Mexico and Italy; Lawrence the memoirist, depicting his strange sometime-friend Maurice Magnus; Lawrence the restless inquirer into the possibilities of the novel, writing about the novel and morality and addressing the question of why the novel matters; and, finally, the Lawrence who meditates on birdsong or the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains. Dyer’s selection of Lawrence’s essays is a wonderful introduction to a fundamental, dazzling writer.

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Book SynopsisThe last of Lawrence's travel books, Etruscan Places is an ephemeral and vivid account, replete with hauntingly evocative descriptions of the way of life of this once great civilisation. The Etruscan civilisation, which flourished from the 8th until the 5th century BC in what is now Tuscany, is one of the most fascinating and mysterious in history. An uninhibited, elemental people, the Etruscans enthralled D.H. Lawrence, who craved their 'old wisdom', the secret of their vivacity and love of life. To him they represented the antithesis of everything he despised in the modern world, perhaps because their spontaneity and naturalness struck a chord with his own quest for personal and artistic freedom - so often censured or repressed. Lawrence approaches the enigmatic Etruscans as a poet, passionately and searchingly, and so the reader is swept up in his luminous descriptions of a utopian world where dancing and feasting, art and music were everything. The exhilaration of Lawrence in his Etruscan adventures stands in stark contrast to his intimations of the darkness of Mussolini's Italy - at a time when Europe was beginning its inexorable drift towards tragedy.Trade ReviewHe wrote something like three dozen books, of which even the worst page dances with life that could be mistaken for no other man’s, while the best are admitted, even by those who hate him, to be unsurpassed. * Time and Tide *He is an extraordinarily acute noticer of the world, human and natural. And it is not just the natural world that beckons Lawrence to flood it with beautiful language . . . he can be as precise and compact an observer of human interaction as Flaubert or Forster. * The Guardian *Table of ContentsForeword by Michael Squires 1. Cerveteri 2. Tarquinia 3. The Painted Tombs of Tarquinia 4. The Painted Tombs of Tarquinia 5. Vulci 6. Volterra

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Book SynopsisIn the bleak aftermath of World War I, Constance, Lady Chatterley, is a young woman trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to an aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralysed. With her husband''s encouragement, she enters into a liaison with Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on their country estate in Nottinghamshire. As this illicit relationship grows into tenderness, mutual respect and sensual passion, Constance discovers that true fulfilment requires a real connection of both mind and body. Lady Chatterley''s Lover shocked its original audience with its vindication of adulterous love across the class divide as well as its explicit descriptions of sex. It retains its power today as a hymn to erotic love and as an impassioned treatise on ''tender-hearted fucking'' as a means to salvation from the horrors of war and the sterility of modern life. It is all the more poignant that Lawrence wrote this book - three times over - while he was dying from tuberculosis. The modern

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Book SynopsisMuch of D.H. Lawrence's life was defined by his passion for travel and it was those peripatetic wanderings that gave life to some of his greatest novels. In the 1920s, Lawrence travelled several times to Mexico, where he was fascinated by the clash of beauty and brutality, purity and darkness that he observed there. The diverse and evocative essays that make up "Mornings in Mexico" - "Market Day", "Dance of the Sprouting Corn", "The Hopi Snake Dance" - bring to life the elemental simplicity of the Zapotec Indians in Mexico, the intense, dark rhythms of the Indians in the American South West and are brightly adorned with simple and evocative details sharply observed: piles of fruit in a village market, strolls in a courtyard filled with hibiscus and roses, the play of light on an adobe wall. It was during his time in Mexico that Lawrence re-wrote "The Plumed Serpent", which is infused with his own experiences there. The spirited eloquence and beauty of the essays in "Mornings in Mexico" thus illuminate the inspiration behind of one of Lawrence's most loved works and immerse the reader in a portrait of the country like no other.Trade Review"'If you read only one book of travellers' tales on Mexico, it must be this one. A magnificent blood-and-ganglion pagan response to the primeval savagery south of the Rio Grande.' - Frank McLynn, Top Ten Books, The Guardian 'He wrote something like three dozen books, of which even the worst page dances with life that could be mistaken for no other man's, while the best are admitted, even by those who hate him, to be unsurpassed.' - Catherine Carswell, Time and Tide 'He is an extraordinarily acute noticer of the world, human and natural. And it is not just the natural world that beckons Lawrence to flood it with beautiful language.. he can be as precise and compact an observer of human interaction as Flaubert or Forster.' - James Wood, The Guardian"Table of ContentsForeword by Michael Squires Corasmin and the Parrots Walk to Huayapa The Mozo Market Day Indians and Entertainment Dance of the Sprouting Corn The Hopi Snake Dance A Little Moonshine with Lemon

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Book SynopsisNellie March and Jill Banford manage an ailing Berkshire farm at the time of the First World War, a task which is made all the more complicated by the frequent rampages of a local fox through their chicken coop. When a young soldier turns up and begins to interfere with the farm and the lives of the two women, they must find ways to react to this new fox in their midst. A compelling study of the question of power, gender and sexuality, as well as a realistic portrayal of wartime rural England, The Fox showcases Lawrence’s inimitable gift for psychological observation and dramatic description.

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Book SynopsisBirds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) was the volume that Lawrence himself described as his best collection of poetry. Composed in various locations during his exile-in Italy, France, Germany and the United States-this long collection occupies a crucial place in the development of his poetry and is that most unusual of creations: a masterpiece of modernist nature writing. This version offers the full text of the first British edition (which included the poems from the short 'Tortoises' volume, unlike the US edition).

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Book SynopsisIntroduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury. ‘When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life’. Richard Aldington This novel is Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. Lawrence’s novels are perhaps the most powerful exploration in the genre in English of family, class, sexuality and relationships in youth and early adulthood.

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Book SynopsisWith an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century. The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within this framework Lawrence's essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters as he explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a religious symbolism in which the 'rainbow' of the title is his unifying motif. His primary focus is on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within marriage and changing social circumstances, a process shown to grow more difficult through the generations. Young Ursula Brangwen, whose story is continued in Women in Love, is finally the central figure in Lawrence's anatomy of the confining structures of English social life and the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on the human psyche.

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Book SynopsisSons and Lovers is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It traces emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers, which exert complex influences on the development of his manhood.

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Book SynopsisThis novel renews the Victorian family saga in a modern setting, tracing the history of the Brangwens through several generations. The book was banned when it first appeared in 1915 for its sensuous immediacy and the frankness with which it explores emotional and sexual life.

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Book SynopsisLawrence is known mainly as a novelist and poet but he was also the author of many superb short stories and novellas. By bringing together all his shorter fiction, this volume makes it possible to survey his entire writing career. Together with many celebrated stories - including THE PRUSSIAN OFFICIER, THE VIRGIN AND THE GYPSY, ST MAWR and ODOUR OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS - there are many lesser known but still magnificent pieces which show the extraordinary diversity of Lawrence's talent and also reveal an often forgotten talent for comedy.

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Book SynopsisThe Masterpieces of World Fiction series features beloved short stories by renowned authors like Chekov, Maupassant, Kipling, Wilde, O. Henry, Saki, Tolstoy, and Conrad. Compiled by Terry O'Brien, it allows readers to rediscover classics and introduces literary gems to younger audiences.

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Book SynopsisLa obra poética del inglés David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) ha sido poco divulgada ?tanto en el mundo de habla inglesa como en el de habla hispana?, a diferencia de lo ocurrido con el resto de su amplia producción en prosa, especialmente sus relatos y novelas. Su vida y su obra literaria nunca han dejado de ser objeto de polémica, no solo por parte de la sociedad post-victoriana que le tocó vivir, sino también por parte de distintos sectores de la crítica literaria a lo largo de todo el siglo veinte. Los casi mil poemas que componen el variado corpus poético de este incansable viajero y explorador de las relaciones entre el hombre y la mujer modernos revelan, en no pocas ocasiones, a un consumado artífice y maestro de un lenguaje poético propio, dentro del High Modernism en lengua inglesa, poseedor de una sensibilidad artística y una poética distintas a la de otros autores coetáneos, como T. S. Eliot o Ezra Pound.José María Moreno Carrascal (1951), traductor y poeta, ha ejercido la docencia durante muchos años. Su tesis doctoral versó sobre la poesía de D. H. Lawrence. Ha traducido al español importantes poetas en lengua inglesa (Wallace Stevens, Charles Bukowski, V. Nabokov, John Updike, W. S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, o Joyce Carol Oates, entre otros) y es autor de la versión en inglés del libro de viajes de Felipe Benítez Reyes Cuaderno de Ruta (Route Log). Sus poemarios Los jardines de hielo y Los reinos diminutos obtuvieron, respectivamente, el accésit al Segundo Premio de Poesía de la Fundación Ecoem y el XXVII Premio de Poesía Unicaja. Actualmente reside con su esposa e hijo en EE.UU., habiendo trabajado como profesor adjunto en los departamentos de Románicas y Humanidades de la Universidad de Villanova, Pensilvania.

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Book SynopsisConstance Chatterley, hija de intelectuales con ideales socialistas y educada en un entorno artístico, contrae matrimonio con Clifford, un joven de clase alta que se encuentra luchando en el frente, aprovechando unos días que éste tiene de permiso. Poco tiempo después, sir Clifford, que ha heredado la casa y el negocio familiares, regresa al hogar parapléjico. Este hecho, que con los años no hará sino exacerbar el carácter ya de por sí frío y cerebral de Clifford, será el detonante para que Constance, rompiendo todas las barreras de clase, mantenga un idilio carnal con el guardabosque de sus tierras, Oliver Mellors. La pasión entre ambos no será únicamente una válvula de escape de todas sus frustraciones vitales, sino también un reino afortunado al margen de todo, especialmente de las diferencias de clase y de otras injusticias (entre las cuales, sin ir más lejos, habría que contar el históricamente ignorado derecho de la mujer al placer).

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Book SynopsisLos seis reveladores ensayos recogidos en el presente volumen, compuestos durante el primer tercio del siglo XX, brindan la siempre personalísima visión de su autor sobre cuestiones universales, ya se trate de amar, de vivir la vida con conciencia y plenitud o de conocer y conocerse en el sentido más esencial del término; textos que se adentran sin ambages en el ámbito de la filosofía, la religión y el arte, que a la par plantean su propio abanico de respuestas, iluminan las sendas por las que deambula la confundida humanidad.

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Book Synopsis"El ensayo titulado La Corona es, con mucho, lo mejor que ha escrito Lawrence. En cierto sentido, lamento no haberlo leído antes; podría haberme evitado muchas horas de trabajo. Por otra parte, ha sido magnífico avanzar a través de estas páginas y hallar las respuestas que presenta a todos los enigmas, expuestas de una manera admirable. Fue escrito en 1915, el mismo año que Arco Iris . Es una profecía y un juicio sobre la humanidad. El lenguaje es incomparable: recuerda lo mejor de la Biblia . Su pensamiento es superior a cualquiera de las parábolas de Jesús, en mi opinión. Es como una nueva Revelación. Está basado en Spengler, aunque Lawrence tal vez no lo haya conocido. Y va más allá de las hipótesis de Spengler. Es la concepción del proceso de la vida elaborada por un verdadero artista. Por momentos resulta difícil, pero nunca carece de claridad. Podría haber acunado al mundo pero, ay!, quién, aparte de unos pocos elegidos, ha oído hablar de La Corona ? La semilla de todos los escritos de Lawrence está allí y algo más que una simple semilla. Es el místico en medio de su éxtasis más arrebatador. Estoy enamorado de ese texto." Henry Miller Cartas a Anaïs Nin

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Book SynopsisConstance Chatterley se había casado con el adinerado sir Clifford en 1917. Pero su marido fue herido fatalmente en la Primera Guerra Mundial y se vio confinado en una silla de ruedas para el resto de sus días, paralítico e imposibilitado para satisfacer a su mujer.Constance Chatterley se había casado con el adinerado sir Clifford en 1917. Pero su marido fue herido fatalmente en la Primera Guerra Mundial y se vio confinado en una silla de ruedas para el resto de sus días, paralítico e imposibilitado para satisfacer a su mujer. Retirados en su mansión campestre, Constance ve cómo su vida y su juventud se escapan. Ama a su marido, pero tiene que responder a la pulsión de la naturaleza. Y allí, cerca del bosque, sus sentidos le exigen una reparación: Oliver Mellors, el callado guardabosques de las tierras de los Chatterley, un hombre fuerte, desinhibido, salvaje y apasionado, se encargará de proporcionar a Constance lo que su marido ya no puede darle.D. H. Lawrence, uno de los escritores más controvertidos de la literatura británica, es autor de varias novelas de gran éxito en las que habla de las relaciones amorosas y la sexualidad como fuente de conocimiento íntimo y personal.En el bosque se escondía la pasión...

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Book SynopsisUn volumen inédito en castellano en el que se ofrecen al lector todas las novelas breves escritas por Lawrence.El escritor E. M. Forster, coetáneo y amigo de Lawrence, le consideraba el novelista de su generación más imaginativo. Esta afirmación es más que evidente en las siete novelas cortas que escribió en el transcurso de su vida y que el lector encontrará en este volumen. En El muñeco del capitán, El zorro y La mariquita , publicadas conjuntamente y por primera vez en 1932, Lawrence expresa su punto de vista sobre el poder y el liderazgo del mundo tras la Primera Guerra Mundial. La virgen y el gitano y La princesa son dos hermosas historias muy bien trazadas, mientras que en St Mawr , situada en Nuevo México, y El gallo escapado , una extraordinaria reescritura de la resurrección de Jesucristo, el autor evoca la riqueza y profundidad del símbolo. La edición que el lector tiene en sus manos ha sido revisada y corregida a la luz de las versiones publicadas por Cambridge University Press en 1983, 1992 y 2005. Es un intoxicador... Ha existido nunca alguien tan capaz como él de dar vida a gentes y lugares de forma tan intensa? Doris Lessing

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Book SynopsisEl arco iris (1915) de D. H. Lawrence ?que presentamos por primera vez íntegra en español, en nuevatraducción de Catalina Martínez Muñoz cuenta la historia de una familia a lo largo de tres generaciones, desde la década de 1840 hasta 1905, y describe el paso de una sociedad rural a una urbana e industrial con una sensibilidad en su día completamente nueva, y aún hoy enormemente original y sorprendente.Prohibida en su día por obscena, ilustra con vigor estas palabras de D. H. Lawrence: En cierto modo, lo que es físico no humano en la humanidad me interesa más que el elemento humano de otro tiempo, que lo obliga a uno a concebir un personaje dentro de un plan moral y hacerlo coherente con él. A ese plan moral es a lo que yo me opongo.

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