D. H. Lawrence's THE RAINBOW, declared obscene when it was published in 1915, is the passionately written chronicle of three generations of a Nottingham farming family. Tom Brangwen marries a widow named Lydia Lensky; Lydia's daughter Anna marries her cousin Will, a woodcarver, and has a large famil ...
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The first of Lawrence's memorable travel books about Italy, this 1916 volume is a very personal tour of the colorful and liberated land that he considered an antidote to the grim and passionless dreariness of his native England.
Lawrence's short and lyrical 1929 novel retells the life of Christ. Resurrected, he does not return to the heaven of his Father but enters into an erotic relationship with a priestess of Isis and conceives a child who will become--quite literally--his body and blood. THE MAN WHO DIED is a symbolic s ...
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