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The Complete Short Stories 1-3

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:56:10 +0000

This substantial volume gathers the complete shorter fiction of one of the major English modernists, whose work reshaped early twentieth‑century literature. Spanning early pieces to later, more accomplished stories, it explores class tensions, industrial life, family conflict, sexuality, desire, and the often fraught relationship between men and women. Set in mining towns, rural landscapes, and intimate domestic interiors, the stories are marked by psychological intensity and a keen sensitivity to the natural world. By turns tender, unsettling, and fiercely perceptive, these works reveal a writer deeply concerned with emotional truth and the hidden currents beneath everyday life. An essential collection for readers interested in modern fiction and the evolution of the short story form.

Women in love

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:06:27 +0000

A daring and psychologically intense novel, this work follows sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen as they pursue passionate, often turbulent relationships in the years before the First World War. Through their involvement with Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, the story explores love in its many forms—romantic, erotic, intellectual, and destructive. Lawrence probes the tensions between individual freedom and emotional dependence, the clash between industrial modernity and the natural world, and the search for authentic connection in a fractured society. D. H. Lawrence, one of the most controversial and influential writers of the twentieth century, is known for his frank treatment of sexuality and his deep interest in human psychology. Readers drawn to searching examinations of intimacy, moral conflict, and the complexities of desire will find this novel both challenging and rewarding.

The First Lady Chatterley

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:05:30 +0000

A passionate and psychologically intense novel exploring the intertwined lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, and their relationships with two very different men. Set in the English Midlands before and after the First World War, the story examines love, desire, power, and the search for personal freedom in a rapidly changing industrial society. Through complex emotional and intellectual conflicts, the characters grapple with questions of intimacy, individuality, and the possibilities—and limits—of human connection. D. H. Lawrence, known for his bold exploration of sexuality and inner life, brings lyrical prose and fierce insight to this provocative and enduring modern classic.

Sons and lovers

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:21:34 +0000

A seminal early twentieth-century novel, this work traces the intense emotional life of Paul Morel, a sensitive young man growing up in an English mining town. At its heart is the powerful, often suffocating bond between Paul and his mother, whose frustrated marriage and thwarted ambitions shape her son’s development. As Paul struggles to form romantic relationships of his own, he finds himself divided between desire, independence, and loyalty to his family. Rich in psychological insight and grounded in working-class life, the novel explores themes of love, sexuality, class, and the conflict between individual freedom and familial duty. Its frank treatment of relationships and inner life marked it as groundbreaking in its time, and it remains compelling for readers interested in complex characters and the emotional forces that shape them.

Lady Chatterley s Lover

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:14:08 +0000

With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition to the general public. The famous ‘trial of Lady Chatterley’ heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery. Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the conservativism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde and from feminists. The story of how the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds when her husband returns from the war paralysed from the waist down, and of the tender love which then develops between her and her husband’s gamekeeper, is a complex one open to a variety of conflicting interpretations. This edition of the novel offers an occasion for a new generation of readers to discover what all the fuss was about; to appraise Lawrence’s bitter indictment of modern industrial society, and to ask themselves what lessons there might be for the 21st century in his intense exploration of the complicated relations between love and sex.

The Plumed Serpent

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:48:00 +0000

The Plumed Serpent by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1926, follows Kate Leslie, an Irish widow disillusioned with modern Western life, who travels to Mexico seeking renewal. There, she encounters the charismatic Mexican general Don Cipriano Viedma and the intellectual landowner Don Ramón Carrasco, who lead a mystical movement to revive ancient Aztec gods like Quetzalcoatl (the plumed serpent) and Huitzilopochtli, blending indigenous spirituality with political power to overthrow Christianity and reshape society. As Kate grapples with cultural clashes, primal rituals, violence, and her own desires, she becomes entangled in their vision, ultimately marrying Cipriano while questioning her place amid the rising tide of pagan fervor and national upheaval.

Zaljubljene žene 1-2

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:11:53 +0000

The White Peacock

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:44:20 +0000

Etruscan Places

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:57:29 +0000

Etruscan Places D.H. Lawrence Published by The Viking Press, 1957. Throughout his life Lawrence was fascinated by Italy, its landscape and its people. The eight short essays in this volume written between 1919 and 1927 grew out of this fascination. His vivid descriptions of the tombs and their decorations, his imaginative interpretation of the artefacts, and his intimate sketches of the countryside and its people, build a picture of the Etruscan life-style, beliefs and civilization which Lawrence saw as the symbol of a lost vitality. Lawrence’s travel books contain a great deal of personal narrative and reveal his passionate involvement with the physical world of nature of which he wrote with immediacy and vividness.

Zaljubljene žene 1-2

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:48:09 +0000