D.H. Lawrence

by Jeffrey Meyers

Jeffrey Meyers, the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Hemingway and George Orwell, offers this masterly work on British novelist D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930). Meyers' fresh insights into Lawrence's life illuminate Lawrence's working-class childhood, his tempestuous marriage, and his death in France after the scandalous publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover , revealing Lawrence's complex method of intermingling autobiography and fiction. Through intensive research and access to unpublished essays and letters of Lawrence and his circle, Meyers describes the circumstances of his mother's death, the reason for the suppression of The Rainbow , and the author's protean (and extreme) sexuality that mirrored that of his fiction.

Genres: Biography, History, Nonfiction

480 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Jeffrey Meyers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has recently been given an Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Thirty of his books have been translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Reviews

[Monte McGuire · Rating 1 out of 5]

Crud, I couldn't finish it. I thought this was about Lawrence of Arabia (T E Lawrence). Oh well ...

[Mick Meyers · Rating 3 out of 5]

A solid if not enjoyable account of Mr Lawrence s life .my first biography about him which I found a very dry account.reading between the lines of Mr meyers book he seems to have been a rather sad individual with a low opinion of others.a rather spoiled man child,who having cursed with Ill health was determined to make others lives a misery as well.why is it that the people that are blessed with an artistic skill seem to think they have to suffer for their art.

[Pat · Rating 2 out of 5]

Adequate overview of Lawrence but lackluster. I'm sure there are better biographies of him out there and I welcome suggestions. This portrays him as an unhealthy, emotionally unstable , petty, abusive man.

[Ryan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Meyer’s biographies do to writers what ill-trained puppies do to living room carpets.

[Lawrence · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[J. Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

bookmarked at page 203 of 387, somewhere between 1916-1919, he's not even out of Cornwall, yet, when I put the book down and never return to it. I know much about his life from there because of his involvement with Aldous Huxley both in England and later in the United States.