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Sons and Lovers / St Mawr / The Fox / The White Peacock / Love Among the Haystacks / The Virgin and the Gypsy / Lady Chatterley's Lover
Book by Lawrence, D. H.
960 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1976
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D.H. Lawrence
2,272 books4,258 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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March 22, 2017
This is a really big, heavy book to manage reading in bed. I chose it because I wanted to read Lady Chatterley's Lover, a story I've heard about for a long time. It is a beautiful story, aside from the vulgar, sexual references, which I don't mind if they are important to the story or character development, but in the case of this book, I'm not sure that applies and they were necessary. I certainly can see why, when it was first written, it was controversial and banned in some places. Even for 1960s readers, it might have been a tough swallow.
I will put the book back on the shelf for now, and read the other stories over time.
I will put the book back on the shelf for now, and read the other stories over time.
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