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.

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

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

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

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....

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....

Fifty great classic short stories selected from the works of the best writers of the last century....

A rich and varied collection of classic short stories by British writers....

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

Sons and Lovers, Lawrence’s third published novel, was written by the author at the height of his literary powers....

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....

Some of the greatest poets and lovers in the English language speak of their love in this seductive and romantic collection....

Sons and Lovers was the first of Lawrence's major works, and is still considered to be one of his best...

This is a selection of D. H. Lawrence’s short stories, mostly about women....

D. H. Lawrence's controversial classic, The Rainbow, follows the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen family between 1840 and 1905....

"The Shades of Spring". In this story, the hero has moved on in the world and is married, yet cannot forget his old love. He retraces the steps to her farm. He finds his old love attached to a young man who can give the girl what he could not - pure, physical love - and this she prefers....

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....