BEST OF D H LAWRENCE

Category Classics
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 150

ISBN: 9.79E+12
Pages: 256 pages
Date: 2003

ABOUT THIS BOOK

One of the most controversial yet celebrated names in English Literature, D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) wrote his first novel The White Peacock in 1931. Lawrence’s novels like Women in Love (1920) and Lady Chatterly’s Lover (1928) were banned for explicit description of sexual activity and had to be privately printed. Lawrence’s personal life was beset with turmoil. His childhood was scarred by a traumatic sexual experience .In 1912, he ran away with Frieda Weekly, his professor’s wife. In 1929, Lawrence became seriously ill and died of tuberculosis on 2 March 1930.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

David Herbert Lawrence wrote in many genres – fiction, poetry, travelogues, criticism and psychology. He also left behind a mass of letters that touched on many subjects. Published privately in New York in 1920, Women in Love is termed an ‘epic of vice’ by critics because of its bold analysis of sexuality.