Lawrence D: 412 books

'Lessford's Rabbits' was written by D H Lawrence in 1908. It was the second of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. The story is set in a local school and gives an insight into the poverty and spirit of working class children as well as a glimpse of Lawrence's time as a teacher.

‘A Modern Lover’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1909. A young man returns home to his first love to declare his feelings for her but the moment is lost when the girl will not give herself sexually. This theme was to be explored fully in Lawrence’s novel, ‘Sons and Lovers’.

England, My England is the title of a collection of short stories by D. H. Lawrence. Individual items were originally written between 1913 and 1921, many of them against the background of World War I. Most of these versions were placed in magazines or periodicals. Ten were later selected and extensively...

'A Lesson on a Tortoise' was written by D H Lawrence in 1908. It was the third of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. The story is set in a local school and shows how Lawrence was ground down by the tiresomeness of teaching and longed to be free.

‘Women in Love’ was written in Cornwall in 1916. It is a sequel to Lawrence's earlier novel ‘The Rainbow’ but did not appear in Britain until 1921, dogged by opposition and controversy. The main theme of the book is the relationship between two couples, Birkin and Ursula and Gerald and...

‘The Old Adam’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1908. It was the fifth of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. The story is set in lodgings in Croydon and the incident may be autobiographical but the story examines for...

‘The Lost Girl’ was published in 1920, although Lawrence had begun it as early as 1913. It was poorly received in England but did better in America and earned Lawrence some of the money he was desperately short of and which was one of the motives which drove him to finish the book.          ...

‘Paul Morel’ is made up of the second and third drafts of the book later to become ‘Sons and Lovers’. The first draft is lost. Lawrence worked on these drafts during 1911.There is much that is familiar but also much that is new. There are scenes from Lawrence’s early childhood, characters...

The author of The Zoo That Never Was and Voyage of the Stella has produced another winning nature adventure. Lawrence decides to study the elusive mountain lion in its native habitat and spends ten months alone in the Selkirk Mountains. This is his story of survival, but also the story of the relationship...

In Praise of Wolves distills the knowledge gained during thirty years of observation by a skilled and sensitive field naturalist who dedicated himself to the study and understanding of wolves. Though anecdotal and personal, its information on wolf behaviour is scientifically sound and its insights often...

‘The Miner at Home’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1912. It was the twelfth of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. Lawrence is at his best in this story, taken from the scenes of his childhood and based on characters...

‘The Wilful Woman’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1922.  It was the fortieth of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. 'The Wilful Woman' remained unfinished and so the tough, spoiled, rich American woman, used to...

'The Border Line' is unusual in that Lawrence dabbles in the supernatural (as he was to do again in 'The Rocking-Horse Winner' two years later) and that this is less a story in the traditional sense and more an exploration of the mind of a particular woman, based on his own wife, Frieda. Katherine,...

‘The Thorn in the Flesh’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1914. It was the twenty-fourth of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be  published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. The story can be read in tandem with 'The Prussian Officer' which was written in the...