D.H. Lawrence

1885-1930 English author, poet

He was the greatest imaginative novelist of his generation. The quintessential "Romantic" author. Probably his most famous book is Lady Chatterley's Lover which was banned for many years in America.

Works include:

• The White Peacock - 1911
• The Trespasser - 1912
• Sons and Lovers - 1913 - Modern Library's 100 Best Books: Fiction, Which was made into a film in 1966
• The Rainbow - 1915 - Modern Library's 100 Best Books: Fiction - The Observer 100 Greatest Novels of All Time
• Women in Love - 1920 which got onto the Modern Library's 100 Best Books: Fiction and ABR's 100 Best Books
• The Lost Girl - 1920
• Aaron's Rod - 1922
• Kangaroo - 1923
• The Boy in the Bush - 1924
• The Plumed Serpent - 1926
• Lady Chatterley's Lover - 1928
• The Escaped Cock (The Man who Died)- 1929
• The Virgin and the Gipsy - 1930
• Love Among the Haystacks - 1930

Classic short stories:

• The Man who Loved Islands
• The Lovely Lady
• The Rocking-Horse Winner
• Rawdon's Roof
• The Man who Died

Poetry

• On the Balcony
• Snake
• How Beastly the Bourgeois Is
• Piano

Falls under the categories of Books that will induce a mindfuck and Books you loan out to expand friends' minds.

He was personal friends with Aldous Huxley and his brother Thomas Huxley.

Related nodes:

• Poem for D.H. Lawrence
• Adventures in English Literature

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