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Table of Contents
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The White Peacock
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
The Lost Girl
Kangaroo
The Fox
The Ladybird
The Captain's Doll
St. Mawr
The Plumed Serpent
The Rainbow
The Woman Who Rode Away and other stories
The Man Who Died
The Virgin and the Gipsy
Sons and Lovers
Collected Short Stories
Women in Love
The Trespasser
Sea and Sardinia
Aaron's Rod
England, My England and Other Stories
Twilight in Italy and other Essays
Amores
The White Peacock (1911)
Lawrence's first novel is set in the Eastwood area of his youth, and involves such themes as the damage associated with mismatched marriages, and the border between town and country. The book includes some notable descriptions of nature and the impact of industrialisation, with a provincialism that may be compared with that of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.
The Lost Girl (1921)
The story is one of a deteriorating middle-class English family against the background of a drab, commercial town; and particularly of the girl of that family, one Alvina Houghton, who becomes "lost" in that she forswears caste and respectability to join a vaudeville troupe and have an affair.
Sons and Lovers (1913)
The story of Paul Morel, a young man and budding artist, growing up in a working class mining community. Considered by many to be D.H. Lawrence's earliest masterpiece.
Aaron's Rod (1922)
Aaron Sisson, union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, is trapped in a stale marriage. He is also a talented amateur flautist, and after walking out on his wife and two children Aaron impusively decides to visit Italy to pursue his dream of becoming a professional musician. During his travels he encounters and befriends Rawdon Lilly, a Lawrence-like writer who nurses Aaron back to health when he is taken ill in post-war London. Recovering his health, Aaron travels to Florence where he moves in intellectual and artistic circles, arguing politics, leadership, and submission, and begins an affair with an aristocratic lady.
