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D.H. Lawrence

Born

in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, The United Kingdom

September 11, 1885

Died

March 02, 1930

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Travel

Influences

Otto Gross, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Sigmund Freud, ...more

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David 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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.58 · 307,956 ratings · 20,895 reviews · 2,313 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lady Chatterley’s Lover 3.50 avg rating — 140,047 ratings — published 1928 — 487 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sons and Lovers 3.64 avg rating — 56,254 ratings — published 1913 — 988 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women in Love 3.66 avg rating — 33,692 ratings — published 1920 — 1908 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rainbow 3.70 avg rating — 21,855 ratings — published 1915 — 1782 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rocking-Horse Winner 3.84 avg rating — 7,256 ratings — published 1926 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Virgin and the Gipsy 3.43 avg rating — 3,945 ratings — published 1930 — 399 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fox 3.43 avg rating — 3,304 ratings — published 1923 — 185 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,897 ratings — published 1964 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odour of Chrysanthemums 3.67 avg rating — 1,824 ratings — published 1911 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plumed Serpent 3.30 avg rating — 1,802 ratings — published 1926 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by D.H. Lawrence (?)

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

tags: life, living, philosophy, women

4934 likes

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

3223 likes

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
― D.H. Lawrence

tags: broken-heart, d-h-lawrence, love, pomegranate

2215 likes

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Polls

July 2017 Short Story Poll

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, 132 pages, 1952

82 votes, 25.3%

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, 56 pages, 1842

61 votes, 18.8%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages 1952

42 votes, 13.0%

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, 110 pages, 1984

36 votes, 11.1%

Summer by Edith Wharton, 127 pages, 1917

30 votes, 9.3%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941

26 votes, 8.0%

To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages, 1903

15 votes, 4.6%

The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence, 22 pages, 1926

13 votes, 4.0%

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty, 32 pages, 1941

13 votes, 4.0%

The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge, 68 pages, 1907

6 votes, 1.9%

324 total votes

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