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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 · 311,491 ratings · 21,514 reviews · 2,263 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lady Chatterley’s Lover 3.50 avg rating — 141,993 ratings — published 1928 — 38 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 — 56,642 ratings — published 1913 — 2297 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 — 33,895 ratings — published 1920 — 1849 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 — 22,040 ratings — published 1915 — 149 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 — 7,312 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 — 4,048 ratings — published 1930 — 390 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 — 3,388 ratings — published 1923 — 238 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 — 1,904 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 3.68 avg rating — 1,857 ratings — published 1911 — 95 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 — 1,821 ratings — published 1926 — 2 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

4937 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

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May 2015 New School Classics Poll

Which book would you choose for our May New School group read?

1957, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages

8 votes, 21.1%

1934, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, 322 pages

5 votes, 13.2%

1928, Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

5 votes, 13.2%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

4 votes, 10.5%

1915, The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, 417 pages

4 votes, 10.5%

1994, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 607 pages

4 votes, 10.5%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages

3 votes, 7.9%

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages

3 votes, 7.9%

1945, The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood, 401 pages

2 votes, 5.3%

38 total votes

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