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D.H. Lawrence


Born
in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, The United Kingdom
September 11, 1885

Died
March 02, 1930

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Travel

Influences
Otto Gross, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Sigmund Freud, ...more


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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.58 · 309,001 ratings · 21,083 reviews · 2,308 distinct works • Similar authors
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
3.50 avg rating — 140,642 ratings — published 1928 — 32 editions
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Sons and Lovers
3.64 avg rating — 56,376 ratings — published 1913 — 987 editions
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Women in Love
3.66 avg rating — 33,759 ratings — published 1920 — 868 editions
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The Rainbow
3.70 avg rating — 21,897 ratings — published 1915 — 1777 editions
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The Rocking-Horse Winner
3.83 avg rating — 7,275 ratings — published 1926 — 33 editions
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The Virgin and the Gipsy
3.43 avg rating — 3,984 ratings — published 1930 — 402 editions
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The Fox
3.43 avg rating — 3,330 ratings — published 1923 — 411 editions
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The Complete Poems of D.H. ...
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,896 ratings — published 1964 — 39 editions
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Odour of Chrysanthemums
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The Plumed Serpent
3.30 avg rating — 1,806 ratings — published 1926 — 320 editions
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“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
tags: life, living, philosophy, women
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“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
― D.H. Lawrence
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June 2015 New School Classics Group Read

Which book would you like to read for our June 2015 New School group read?

1947, The Plague by Albert Camus, 308 pages
 
  9 votes, 20.9%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  7 votes, 16.3%

 
  6 votes, 14.0%

1989, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, 637 pages
 
  5 votes, 11.6%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages
 
  4 votes, 9.3%

1905, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 335 pages
 
  3 votes, 7.0%

 
  3 votes, 7.0%

1941, Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 84 pages
 
  3 votes, 7.0%

1965, Stoner by John Williams, 288 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.3%

1904, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 425 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

1921, Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, 359 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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