Erotic Works

by D.H. Lawrence (Illustrator), Claire Booss (Editor), Christopher Busa (Editor)

D.H. Lawrence, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, is particularly known for his controversial writings on erotica. Now recognized as an achievement of great literary merit, his Lady Chatterley's Lover, included in this sweeping collection on sex and love, was banned here until 1959. Along with eight of Lawrence's best novels, novellas, short stories, and essays, and fourteen poems, this volume includes the rare, unexpurgated version of this "revolutionary poet of desire's" story "Sun."

Genres: Classics

592 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

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 of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. He is now generally valued as a visionary thinker and a significant representative of modernism in English literature.
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Reviews

[Cynda Wolfe · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't have a current review for this anthology, however over time I have read everything DHL ever wrote. He is by far my lifetime's most favorite (and trusted) writer. I love his creative process, the era he wrote in, the issues and dramas he brought into my consciousness, his honesty, his absolute defiance of censors and his success at outwitting them.

This anthology containing his erotica always proves a wonderful venture. Once again as I read his works I day dream of "someday" actually BEING a writer, just like I did two eras ago. Accordingly, I remember my beloved Lit. prof. Dr. Ford Bennett somberly admonishing all of us Lit. majors NOT to write for a living. (He thought we would starve before we were published, and in those days it might have been true.) Yet, who would have all those years ago, guessed the internet, free websites, and this forum, where daily we can write our feelings and expressions, phrases and opinions, essays and stories in hopes that maybe someone out there actually reads them. It renews the thrill. (Again, there is STILL the possibility of starving.)

Anyway, I will be happy to re read all the details of DHLs erotic stories, and share my impressions with you, hopefully all of them . . . one at a time.

[Rajat Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good