Lawrence considered this sequel to THE RAINBOW to be his best novel. It traces the stories of Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, particularly their romantic entanglements and dilemmas. Ursula marries Rupert Birkin--Lawrence's alter ego--a thoroughly modern and enlightened young man who believes in ideal lo ...
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Charts the regenerative and destructive aspects of human passion as Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen conduct relationships with Gerald Crich and Rupert Birkin. Set against a backdrop of a world consuming itself in war, this novel creates an instructive vision of humanity's poignant dance with life and dea ...
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Lawrence's essays on American writers--including Franklin, Hawthorne, and Whitman--are inventive, illuminating, brilliant, and decidedly eccentric. While they were in progress, he described them to a friend as "a thrilling blood-and-thunder, your-money-or-your-life kind of thing: hands up America!" ...
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This critical edition of the two early manuscript versions of Lawrence's great, infamous novel shows a fascinating evolution of the story and characters.
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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