D. H. Lawrence

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Two is the second instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Two features 13 essential classic novels from Jane Austen; Edith Wharton; Leo Tolstoy; D.H. Lawrence, and many more.

The story of class differences (the relationship between a middle-class woman and a miner) in the tough world of coal mining brought a refreshing realism to literature....

Set in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow revolves around three generations of Brangwens....

Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's first major novel, was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside....

In Odour of Chrysanthemums D.H. Lawrence explores the concept of human isolation and the nature of love and relationships....

Lawrence is at his best in this story. The main themes of the story are the class system that dominated society at the time and the pressures put on the young lovers who have to overcome it, and the position of women in society who have nothing to offer but their bodies....

A wonderful collection of 50 of the best classic ghost stories ever written....

In "The Prussian Officer", there is an anti-militarism theme, unpopular as the nation drew near to war, and an examination of latent homosexuality as the officer in the story struggles with his feelings for his orderly. The young soldier is driven beyond his breaking point....

In this story, the young soldier fights against his own shortcomings as a soldier and as a man. He flees the scene of his crime into the arms of his lover, where he finds solace and comfort, but he cannot escape the inevitable military machine that Lawrence hated....

Sons and Lovers is widely considered by critics and readers alike as D.H. Lawrence’s masterpiece and a classic interpretation of the Oedipal complex....

Lawrence is often accused of misogyny, and this story used as evidence against him. There is the simple but honest mine worker who has taken on a wife who is "above" him, but who is struggling to understand her and her feelings for him. Slowly, the story unravels the woman's past....

In this beautifully observed study of a new marriage and the sexual tensions that run through it, the young wife strains against the bonds of being married and dallies with another man but returns to the arms of her husband once he shows his true feelings for her....

A fascinating collection of tales from some of Great Britain's finest classic authors....

Power, desire, and violence collide in The Prussian Officer, a haunting exploration of the human psyche by D.H. Lawrence. This novella peels back the...

Considered the most widely read novel of the 20th century, D. H. Lawrence's fiery fifth book continues the loves and lives of The Rainbow's Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula....

Lord Chatterley (Jens Harzer) kehrt gelähmt aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg zurück. Er erlaubt seiner jungen Frau Constanze (Nora v. Waldstätten)...

A powerful and engrossing tale of extremes and extremists, D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love follows the passionate relationships of two sisters....

Fifty unusual and enchanting short stories....

It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things – about young women, and love....

Lawrence explores love, sex, passion, and marriage through the eyes of two sisters, Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen....