Facing impending spinsterhood, educated Englishwoman Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a Midlands drape-maker, discovers her own passion and sensuality in the fertile landscape of Italy when she meets Cicio, a vaudeville performer and a man of lower social...
This early version of Sons and Lovers, Lawrence's highly popular autobiographical novel, has never been published before. It is very different from Sons and Lovers, less polished but full of powerful, spontaneous, dramatic writing. The volume also...
Writer Richard Somers and his wife Harriet leave exhausted post-war Europe in the hope of rebuilding their marriage in a new and freer world. In Australia, in an idyllic cottage by the sea, they believe they have finally realised their dream - until they...
D. H. Lawrence wrote these three 'novelettes' between November 1920 and December 1921; they were enthusiastically received by his English publisher and his readers. The ending of the first version of 'The Fox', written in December 1918,...
D. H. Lawrence left England for the first time in May 1912, and began almost immediately to record his reactions to foreign cultures. He wrote a series of travel articles intended for newspapers, two of which are published here for the first time after...