D. Lawrence

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books This small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods. The hope is that in such a limited number of pages, the reader will come away with a compressed, rich sense of Lawrence’s wonderful prose style, precision of language and expansive vision of the human struggle and how it can be transcended. Is ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’ perhaps the greatest of all English short stories?

This elegant collector's edition presents D. H. Lawrence classic love story, Lady Chatterley's Lover, featuring stunning silver cover embossing and gilded page-edges. Lady Chatterley's Lover explores the intense affair between the sexually frustrated Connie - whose husband, Clifford, is paralysed from the waist down - and Oliver Mellors, the family gamekeeper. First published in 1928, the novel challenged the social and sexual taboos of its time and was immediately banned as obscene. Lawrence's last and most famous work of fiction, it was eventually published in full in 1960 to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the writer's death. This ornate hardback edition features silver cover embossing, patterned endpaper designs, ivory pages and stencilled page-edges, making a wonderful collectible edition for any lover of classic literature. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautiful pocket editions of iconic literary works from across history. Presented with striking foil cover embossing, gilded page edges, and deluxe ivory paper, these editions make the perfect gift for lovers of classic literature.

1928-ban D. H. Lawrence könyve, a Lady Chatterley szeretője óriási botrányt kavart a szexuális tartalmú jelenetek kendőzetlen ábrázolása miatt; pornográfia vádjával az angol hatóságok a kiadói készletet el is kobozták. Több mint harminc évig csak cenzúrázott változatban vehették kézbe a kötetet az olvasók, és egészen a hatvanas évekig kellett várniuk arra, hogy Angliában teljes terjedelmében a könyvesboltok polcaira kerülhessen a mű – addig csak külföldön nyomtatott kalózkiadásokhoz lehetett hozzájutni. Az elgépiesedett civilizáció regénye ez, szenvedélyes, poétikus alkotás. A modern társadalom bajainak gyógyírját az ösztönök, az érzelmek és az érzékek szabadjára engedésében, az emberi gyöngédségben látja. Tabukat dönt meg: a modern regényirodalomban elsőként ábrázolja szókimondóan a testi szerelmet – ráadásul két eltérő társadalmi rétegből származó ember, egy munkásosztálybeli férfi és egy arisztokrata nő között.

Román Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1928, Milenec lady Chatterleyové, vzbudil po svém vydání senzaci a pobouření! Policejně byl zakázán a ještě v roce 1960 se nakladatelství Penguin Books ocitlo na lavici obžalovaných, když knihu vydalo. V proslulém soudním procesu, v němž na obranu Lawrencova románu vystoupila řada věhlasných spisovatelů a literárních vědců, byl román shledán nevinným a zbaven nařčení z pornografie. Je pravda, že autor líčí erotické scény s velkou otevřeností. Nejsou však samoúčelné. Jde o společenský román o lidských vztazích na přelomu dvou epoch, s důrazem na hluboký a pravdivý erotický vztah mezi mužem a ženou, který má vliv na emancipaci člověka a společnosti.

Keď román Milenec lady Chatterleyovej vyšiel prvý raz, spôsobil šok a všeobecné pobúrenie. Autor v ňom totiž otvorene opísal sexuálny milenecký vzťah a použil také výrazy z oblasti erotiky, aké sa v anglickej literatúre, dovtedy spútanej viktoriánskym pokrytectvom a prudériou, nikdy predtým neobjavili. Príbeh mladej lady Connie, manželstvom pripútanej k urodzenému, za vojny doživotne zmrzačenému manželovi a obrodenej fyzickou láskou k prostému hájnikovi Mellorsovi, vyjadruje vieru v obrodnú moc „novej sexuality“. Román bol zakázaný ako nemravný a pornografický a v plnom znení vyšiel až tridsať rokov po autorovej smrti.

'So Ursula became the child of her father's heart.' The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family and their struggles with each other and themselves. Beautiful, strange and with a power all its own, The Rainbow redefined the English novel. This is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

D.H. Lawrence is one of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century. He gained literary fame for his novels and poems which took a vigorous, new attitude towards personal relationships. The passion, intensity and honesty of Lawrence's best work will ensure his popularity and critical reputation long after the scandal surrounding Lady Chatterley's Lover has been forgotten. Sons and Lovers, Lawrence's first important novel, examines the emotional conflict in an ambitious young painter as he struggles to escape his mining background and is caught between intense devotion to his mother and a newly-aroused passion for two dissimilar women. Lawrence considered Women in Love his best novel, the story of the loves of two sisters Gudrun and Ursula charts a course of tempestuous passions descending, inevitably, into tragedy. Love Among the Haystacks is the short but powerful tale of rivalry between two brothers whose emotional confusion finds resolution one summer night after the Nottingham harvest. Lady Chatterley's Lover is perhaps the most notorious novel ever written. This story of a passionate love affair between an aristocratic lady and her crippled husband's gamekeeper was banned when it first appeared and the unexpurgated text published here was suppressed for a further thirty-two years.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley's marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralyzed from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests that she have an affair. Constance, troubled by her husband's words, finds herself involved in a passionate relationship with their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Lawrence's vitriolic denunciations of industrialism and class division come together in his vivid depiction of the profound emotional and physical connection between a couple otherwise divided by station and society.

She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ...And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes"'. The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age. Set in Lawrence's native Nottinghamshire, "Sons and Lovers" is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations. The "Penguin English Library" - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'There was one place in the world that stood solid and did not melt into unreality: the place where his mother was. Everybody else could grow shadowy, almost non-existent to him, but she could not.'In his quest to find his emotional and independent self, Paul Morel is torn between the strong, Oedipal bond he has with his mother and the relationships he forges as a young adult, with chaste Miriam and the provocative Clara. As Paul matures and struggles with his own and his mother's feelings towards the other women in his life, Lawrence expertly crafts a timeless and universal story of family, love and the relationships that define us.

This companion features 7 of the best Lawrence stories, each turning on some facet of sexual feeling, attitude, or convention. Includes "The Prussian Officer," "The Shadow in the Rose Garden," "The White Stocking," "Daughters of the Vicar," "The Christening," "Second Best" and "Odour of Chrysanthemums"  Note.