This classic book contains a collection of short stories, including 'England, My England', 'Monkey Nuts' and 'The Primrose Path', and will prove an enjoyable read for all.

D. H. Lawrence writes -Giovanni Verga, the Sicilian novelist and playwright, is surely the greatest writer of Italian fiction, after Manzoni-. Originally published under the title -Novelle Rusticane -, this delightful collection of stories from the Sicily of the 1800's is translated and introduced by Lawrence.

"Lady Chatterley's Lover" is a 1928 novel written by D. H. Lawrence. It is the story of Constance, a young upper-class married woman whose paraplegic husband has become distanced and uninterested in his wife. Due to Constance's profuse sexual frustration, she begins to have an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The difference of class between the two forms a central motif of the novel, which soon became notorious for its explicit descriptions of sex and its employment of then-unprintable words. David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885 - 1930) was a seminal English novelist, poet,...

Giovanni Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the "Little Novels of Sicily (Novelle Rusticane)"

The Rainbow is considered to be one of D. H. Lawrence's finest works. Covering the pre-World War I period from about 1840 to 1905, the novel explores the relationships between three generations in the Brangwen family, describing in the process the emergence of English society from the Victorian period and its entrance into the modern period. Lawrence shows how characters are determined in part by the time and place in which they live, and he also dramatizes how they struggle to reconcile conflicting feelings and impulses. The Rainbow was followed by a sequel, Women in Love, in 1920. David...

The Modern Library placed it ninth on their list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is a novel telling the story of Paul Morel, a young man and budding artist striving to win free from his old life. When Paul falls in love with a local girl, Miriam, his mother disapproves, and Paul is forced to choose between them. "Sons and Lovers" is an intense examination of family, class, and love, set in a small mining town in the early 1900's. D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter whose works represent a...

Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual. The novel ranges over British society prior to the First World War and ends high in the Tyrolean Alps. D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter whose works...

The Lost Girl is a novel by D. H. Lawrence awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. The Lost Girl tells the story of Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father's business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter's proper upbringing, James Houghton buys a theater. Among the traveling performers he employs is Ciccio, a sensual Italian who immediately captures Alvina's attention. Fleeing with him to Naples, she leaves her safe world behind and enters one of sexual awakening,...

Sea and Sardinia is a travel book by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It describes his excursion with his wife Frieda from Taormina to the interior of Sardinia. They visited Cagliari, Mandas, Sorgono, and Nuoro. Despite the brevity of his visit, Lawrence distils an essence of the island and its people that is still recognizable today. "Very dark under the great carob tree as we go down the steps. Dark still the garden. Scent of mimosa, and then of jasmine. The lovely mimosa tree invisible. Dark the stony path. The goat whinnies out of her shed. The broken Roman tomb which lolls right over...

English was one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. This collection features three of his short stories. A Short Story Collection includes: The Prussian Officer Wintry Peacock "Tickets Please " D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter whose works represent a reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In his writings Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct often apposing current social acceptance. E. M. Forster, in an obituary...