David Herbert Lawrence

"The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a short story by D. H. Lawrence. The story describes a young middle-class Englishwoman who "had no luck." Though outwardly successful, she is haunted by a sense of failure; her husband is a ne'er-do-well and her work as a commercial artist doesn't earn as much as she'd like. The family's lifestyle exceeds its income and unspoken anxiety about money permeates the household. Her children, a son Paul and his two sisters, sense this anxiety; moreover, the kids even claim they can hear the house whispering "There must be more money." Paul tells his Uncle Oscar Cresswell about betting on horse races with Bassett, the gardener. He's been placing bets using his pocket money and has won and saved three hundred twenty pounds. Sometimes he says he is "sure" of a winner for an upcoming race, and the horses he names do in fact win, sometimes at remarkable odds. Uncle Oscar and Bassett both place large bets on the horses Paul names. After further winning, Paul and Oscar arrange to give the mother a gift of five thousand pounds, but the gift only lets her spend more. Disappointed, Paul tries harder than ever to be "lucky." As the Derby approaches, Paul is determined to learn the winner. Concerned about his health, his mother rushes home from a party and discovers his secret. He has been spending hours riding his rocking horse, sometimes all night long, until he "gets there," into a clairvoyant state where he can be sure of the winner's name. Paul remains ill through the day of the Derby. Informed by Cresswell, Bassett has placed Paul's bet on Malabar, at fourteen to one. When he is informed by Bassett that he now has 80,000 pounds, Paul says to his mother: "I never told you, mother, that if I can ride my horse, and get there, then I'm absolutely sure - oh absolutely! Mother, did I ever tell you? I am lucky!" "No, you never did," said his mother. The boy dies in the night and his mother hears her brother say, "My God, Hester, you're eighty-odd thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad. But, poor devil, poor devil, he's best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking horse to find a winner."

A Fragment of Stained Glass

The Rocking-horse Winner

With her soft brown hair, lithe figure and big, wondering eyes, Constance Chatterley is possessed of a certain vitality. Yet she is deeply unhappy, married to a physical and emotional cripple, and embarks on an affair with Mellors, the gamekeeper.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lawrence first put together the collection of his poems in 1928. They are arranged chronologically "to make up a biography of an emotional and inner life".

The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

Akşit Göktürk

Lady Chatterleyin sevgilisi :roman

L'amante di lady Chatterley

Sons and Lovers

Yvette, daughter of a stern rector whose wife ran off with a younger man, falls in love with a handsome gipsy, but is afraid to face social disapproval

The Virgin and the Gipsy

Both attracted and repelled by Mexico and homesick for her native Ireland, Kate Leslie nonetheless agrees to marry Don Cipriano, an Indian

The Plumed Serpent (Quetzalcoatl)

RODRIGO RITCHER

Considerado obsceno, 'O amante de Lady Chatterley' foi publicado clandestinamente em 1928, na França, e sua circulação foi proibida na Inglaterra até 1960, quando o livro saiu vitorioso de uma grande batalha judicial. Este romance de Lawrence explora abertamente o amor e o sexo, rompendo as convenções sociais e as relações de classe. O autor glorifica a alegria dos corpos durante o sexo ao narrar a história de Constance Reid, uma bela mulher que se casa com o aristocrata Clifford Chatterley, um oficial inglês. Logo após a lua-de-mel ele é chamado para uma das frentes de batalha da Primeira Guerra e retorna inválido, numa cadeira de rodas. Após a limitação física do marido, os desejos sexuais arrebatadores de Lady Constance Chatterley são satisfeitos pelo amante, Oliver Mellors, um dos empregados do solar dos Chatterley, tendo como cenário a Inglaterra conservadora do início do século XX.

O amante de Lady Chatterley

James Wood

James Wood has selected fourteen of D. H. Lawrence's stories that demonstrate clearly the breadth of Lawrence's achievement in the shorter form. The stories are "Strike-Pay," "Love Among the Haystacks," "The Prussian Officer," "The Thorn in the Flesh," "A Fragment of Stained Glass," "Odour of Chrysanthemums," "England, My England," "The Blind Man," "The Fox," "St. Mawr," "The Woman Who Rode Away," "The Border Line," "The Man Who Loved Islands," and "The Man Who Died." In a long introductory essay, "The Success of Failure: D. H. Lawrence's Short Stories," written especially for this Modern Library edition, Wood discusses Lawrence's supremacy as a religious novelist who is also a modern writer with profound Romantic tendencies.

Selected Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence

Birds Beasts and Flowers

D. H. Lawrence's 1915 novel "The Rainbow" is the story of three generations of the Brangwens family. While tame by today's standards, "The Rainbow", for its frank treatment of human sexuality, caused Lawence to be prosecuted on an obscenity charge in England when it was first published. Through richly personal characterizations, "The Rainbow" deals profoundly with the very nature of human relations as it explores the sexuality of Ursula Brangwen and her mother, Anna Brangwen.

The Rainbow

Antoaneta Ralian

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Amantul doamnei Chatterley

Fii şi îndrăgostiţi

Figli e amanti

Selected Short Stories

André Malraux

Le roman le plus connu de D.H. Lawrence. Son succès repose sur l'idée que c'est le chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature érotique, l'histoire d'une épouse frustrée, au mari impuissant, et qui trouve l'épanouissement physique dans les bras vigoureux de son garde-chasse. Mais l'importance du livre est dans la peinture d'un choc historique et social qui constitue le monde moderne. Entre la communauté rurale anglaise et le monde industriel, c'est tout le tissu d'un pays qui se déchire. La forêt du roman, où vit Mellors, le garde-chasse, représente le dernier espace de sauvagerie et de liberté ; lady Chatterley l'y retrouve et s'y retrouve, tout en voyant basculer son univers habituel. Ce roman poétique doit être lu comme un mélange de voyage initiatique, de descente aux enfers, comme une grande lamentation sur l'état de l'Angleterre, aux échos bibliques. L'intrigue amoureuse séduit à une première lecture ; mais le roman a une valeur historique et symbolique.

L'amant de Lady Chatterley

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Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence's second novel The Trespasser is based on the tragic love affair of his friend Helen Corke and her violin teacher. After reading Miss Corke's diary, Lawrence first urged her to write her story and then received her permission to do it himself. Between his rapid composition of the first draft in the spring and summer of 1910 and his final revisions in early 1912, Lawrence's view of Helen Corke, and consequently of her story, changed. The manuscript survives, and this edition presents the text for the first time as Lawrence wrote it, restoring his sentence-structure and punctuation and correcting numerous typesetters' errors. In her substantial introduction Elizabeth Mansfield explores the background of the novel, presents the complications of the publishing history and the novel's reception. A full textual apparatus records the history of the text and the editor annotates topical and other references.

David Herbert Lawrence

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