David Herbert Lawrence
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'Samson and Delilah' is set against a Cornish backdrop. Lawrence and his wife tried to settle in Cornwall during the First World War but were hounded by the authorities and forced to leave. Lawrence pointedly describes the local people as' mindless' in this story. It is almost a Homeric story of a husband returning home after a long absence, having to fight to regain his wife. But in this story it is the wife who is the obstacle. But she succumbs...
2) Second Best
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Two sisters, Anne (14) and Frances (about 23), are playing in the grass, talking about Frances’ longstanding will-they-won’t-they courtship with Jimmy Barrass, who, we learn now lives in Liverpool and has become a Doctor of Chemistry. While the sisters are talking, they spot a mole in the grass. Anne picks it up, and when it bites her, she strikes it with her sister’s walking-cane, killing it. As the two sisters are walking home, they bump into...
3) Strike-Pay
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Strike-money is paid in the Primitive Methodist Chapel. The crier was round quite early on Wednesday morning to say that paying would begin at ten o’clock.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Twilight in Italy is a collection of travel essays by D. H. Lawrence. In August of 1912, Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, took a trip to Italy where he was inspired to write an account of the things he experienced there. The first essay in the collection, “The Crucifix Across the Mountains,” details a walking trip the pair took in Tryol, just before traveling south to Italy. Lawrence comments on the customs, languages and cultures he experiences...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'Tickets Please' returns Lawrence to his native Nottingham during the war. The social revolution of women doing jobs previously done by men, also begins to change the relationship between the sexes and the women in the story are aggressive and wanting their rights. But are they happier for conquering the flighty male in the story or is the domination of man by woman one step too far only generating hate and unhappiness?
6) Aaron's Rod
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Aaron’s Rod details Aaron Sisson’s physical and
artistic journeys as he strives to become a flautist. Many elements of the
story are recreations of events in Lawrence’s own life.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A bleak, unrelenting tale of poverty and loss, Lawrence’s expertly crafted novella chillingly examines man’s increasing inability to love and be loved. Looking for acceptance from his new congregation, the Reverend Ernest Lindley cannot ignore the fact that his parishioners are far from welcoming. Rather than confront such hostility, the Lindleys instead become ever more isolated: he “pale and miserable and neutral;” she “bitter and beaten...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Includes Blind Man; England, My England; Fanny and Annie; Horse Dealer's Daughter; Monkey Nuts; Primrose Path; Samson and Delilah; Tickets, Please; Wintry Peacock; You Touched Me England, My England is a collection of stories by published by D.H. Lawrence in 1922. Most of the stories were written against the backdrop of the World War I. Taking war and its destruction as its main concern, the collection contains stories like, The Blind Man, The Horse-Dealer's...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A woman of 30, Fanny, has lived away from her first love for 12 years. In the meantime, she has learned manners, better speech, and become a little spohisticated. He, Harry, has stayed working in a furnace. She has decided to come back to marry him, after a few affairs that came to nothing, and although she initially reels from his lack of any initiative, and his basic ways, she decided to stay with him when tested, following an outburst in church...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
I am not a proper archaeologist nor an anthropologist nor an ethnologist. I am no "scholar" of any sort. But I am very grateful to scholars for their sound work. I have found hints, suggestions for what I say here in all kinds of scholarly books, from the Yoga and Plato and St. John the Evangel and the early Greek philosophers like Herakleitos down to Fraser and his "Golden Bough," and even Freud and Frobenius. Even then I only remember hints--and
...11) Figli e amanti
Author
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Italiano
Description
L'opera, da molti considerata il suo primo capolavoro, fu nella sua prima edizione pesantemente rimaneggiata da Edward Garnett (a cui peraltro è dedicata) che ne cancellò un'ottantina di brani, circa un decimo della lunghezza. Fu solo nel 1922 che ne venne pubblicata una versione in cui fu recuperato il testo integrale originale. In questo libro viene messo in risalto l'attaccamento quasi morboso che una madre prova verso il proprio figlio prediletto,...
12) Goose Fair
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Through the gloom of evening, and the flare of torches of the night before the fair, through the still fogs of the succeeding dawn came paddling the weary geese, lifting their poor feet that had been dipped in tar for shoes, and trailing them along the cobble-stones into the town.
13) Her Turn
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"She was his second wife, and so there was between them that truce which is never held between a man and his first woman. He was one for the women, and as such, an exception among the colliers. In spite of their prudery, the neighbour women liked him."
14) Women in Love
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Lawrence’s Women in Love is arguably his most important novel because of its revolutionary narrative technique, and its demonstration of an underlying psychological understanding of its main characters. Instead of intellectualizing or emotionalizing the motivations of his characters, Lawrence looks at their desires in terms of instinctual and physical motives. The book traces the development of the relationships between two couples: Gudrun and Gerald,...
15) You Touched Me
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Two spinster sisters, quietly nursing their dying father in their family home, find their lives disrupted by the reappearance of a former charity boy, now a young soldier, whom their father had raised as a son.
16) Monkey Nuts
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The conversation was carried on in tiny voices, for fear of disturbing the householders. "I don't know," said Joe, turning. He looked full at Albert, the two men looked straight into each other's eyes. There was a lurking grin in each of them. "Well I'm--blamed " said Albert at last, throwing the telegram down emphatically on the bed.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'Was this what it all meant - utter, intact separateness, obscured by heat of living?' D. H. Lawrence's short stories portray complex, flawed interior lives, showing individuals facing momentous emotional events. In these two stories of fragile happiness and failed dreams, a tragedy forces a woman to acknowledge that she has never known her husband, and a man blinded in the First World War discovers an unexpected peace.
18) The Blind Man
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'The Blind Man' is a delicate study of a loving relationship blighted by the man's blindness and disfigurement in the first world war. The arrival of an old friend of the woman brings into the open feelings and fears previously suppressed.