D H LAWRENCE - A SELECTION OF POEMS

D H LAWRENCE: SELECTED STORIES

This collection of short stories traces the development of D H Lawrence as a writer. His early tales draw on personal experience from childhood to the First World War. Later stories express his developing ideas from early realism towards myth and fairy tale, murder and ghost stories.

LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER

Constance Chatterley, married to Sir Clifford, an aristocraticic intellectual who is paralyzed from the waist down after the First World War, finds herself involved in a passionate relationship with their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. A vivid depiction of the emotional and physical connection between a couple otherwise divided by station and society.

THE RAINBOW

This controversial classic follows the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen family, between 1840 and 1905. Their tempestuous relationships are played out against a backdrop of change as they witness the arrival of industrialization - the only constant being their unending attempts to grasp a higher form of existence, symbolized by the persistent, unifying motif of the 'rainbow'.

SONS AND LOVERS

Paul Morel finds himself torn between love for his demanding mother and his two very different lovers in this semi-autobiographical novel set in a Nottinghamshire coalmining village at the turn of the 20th century.

WOMEN IN LOVE

Ursula Brangwen is attracted to Rupert Birkin, her sister Gudrun is drawn to Gerald Crich. As the two women earn their living and consider the issue of marriage, the men deal with issues of sexuality and power, and whether the love of a woman is enough. Both men have homosexual urges which compete with their feelings for women.