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D. H. Lawrence
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English
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Lawrence's first novel The White Peacock was begun in 1906, rewritten three times, and published in 1911. The Cambridge edition uses the final manuscript as base-text, and faithfully recovers Lawrence's words and punctuation from the layers of publishers' house-styling and their errors; original passages, changed for censorship reasons, are reinstated. Andrew Robertson's introduction sets out the history of Lawrence's writing and revision, and the...
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 1882 and handsome, blue-eyed Jack Grant, not quite 18 and "a little sinner" has arrived in Australia from England in search of a new life. He quickly rejects the staid conventions of Perth society for the challenges of the Australian bush. Toughened by his experiences, he emerges a new man.
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Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"A book which has achieved more notoriety for its sex scenes (shocking in 1930, when the book was written) than for its character studies, Lady Chatterley's Lover focuses on the affair between Constance, the "sturdy" young wife of Clifford Chatterley, and the gamekeeper of the Chatterleys' estate in the remote midlands. Constance, who married Clifford a month before he left for World War I, has become his caretaker since his return from the war, paralyzed...
