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Sons and Lovers / The Fox / Love Among the Haystacks / Aaron's Rod / The Ladybird / Women in Love
an omnibus of novels by D. H. Lawrence
- GenresFiction
958 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1979
About the author
D.H. Lawrence
2,341 books4,414 followersDavid Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct.
Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. He is now generally valued as a visionary thinker and a significant representative of modernism in English literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.H._Law...
Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. He is now generally valued as a visionary thinker and a significant representative of modernism in English literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.H._Law...
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September 3, 2011
My goal was to read Sons & Lovers and Women in Love.
Just finished Women in Love. The story was interesting but the writing style a little jagged. One example of something I didn't like was the rather abrupt transition, with a single chapter, from one "scene" to another.
I also did not his habit of using the same word two to three times in the same paragraph. For example:
"... what a perfect voluptuous fulfilment it would be, to kill her. His mind was absent all the evening, estranged by the snow and his passion. But he kept the idea constant within him, what a perfect voluptuous consummation it would be to strangle her, ... Then he would have had her finally and for ever; there would be such a perfect voluptuous finality."
I did like this:
"The wheel-barrow -- the one humble wheel -- the unit of the firm. Then the cart, with two wheels; then the truck with four; then the donkey-engine with eight, then the winding-engine with sixteen, and so on, till it came to the miner, with a thousand wheels, ...and the general manager with a hundred thousand little wheels ... and then Gerald, with a million wheels and cogs and axles."
While his overall style wasn't great, I do plan to take a break, read someone else and come back to him again.
Just finished Women in Love. The story was interesting but the writing style a little jagged. One example of something I didn't like was the rather abrupt transition, with a single chapter, from one "scene" to another.
I also did not his habit of using the same word two to three times in the same paragraph. For example:
"... what a perfect voluptuous fulfilment it would be, to kill her. His mind was absent all the evening, estranged by the snow and his passion. But he kept the idea constant within him, what a perfect voluptuous consummation it would be to strangle her, ... Then he would have had her finally and for ever; there would be such a perfect voluptuous finality."
I did like this:
"The wheel-barrow -- the one humble wheel -- the unit of the firm. Then the cart, with two wheels; then the truck with four; then the donkey-engine with eight, then the winding-engine with sixteen, and so on, till it came to the miner, with a thousand wheels, ...and the general manager with a hundred thousand little wheels ... and then Gerald, with a million wheels and cogs and axles."
While his overall style wasn't great, I do plan to take a break, read someone else and come back to him again.
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February 24, 2009Sons and lovers by D. H. Lawrence (1913)
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