D. H. Lawrence

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Two is the second instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Two features 13 essential classic novels from Jane Austen; Edith Wharton; Leo Tolstoy; D.H. Lawrence, and many more.

Strong female protagonists grace this collection of passionate stories dedicated to mothers, daughters, wives, and lovers....

Sons and Lovers is widely considered by critics and readers alike as D.H. Lawrence’s masterpiece and a classic interpretation of the Oedipal complex....

Written in 1913, D H Lawrence's first major novel, Sons and Lovers, was the one of the earliest in the English language to explore a close-knit mining community from the inside....

"The Rocking Horse Winner" is one of Lawrence's more popular short stories with its mixture of the supernatural and its moral lesson of the corrupting nature of the love of money....

Elizabeth, a young wife and mother, waits for her husband Walter to come home from the coal mine. She attributes his lateness to him having gone drinking....

Sons and Lovers was the first of Lawrence's major works, and is still considered to be one of his best...

Lawrence’s style is bold, intimate and inventive and he always has the capacity to shock....

Lawrence explores love, sex, passion, and marriage through the eyes of two sisters, Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen....

Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's first major novel, was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside....

Sons and Lovers initially incited allegations of obscenity. It is today regarded as a masterpiece and is often regarded as Lawrence's finest achievement....

When Constance Reid's new husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, returns from war paralyzed and in a wheelchair, she sees her future wither. As their marriage grows loveless, she mourns the desires fated to go unfulfilled....

Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors....

The story of the physical relationship between the aristocratic protagonist Constance Chatterley and gamekeeper Oliver Mellors....

Paul Morel, caught between the suffocating love of his mother and the tumultuous relationships with the women in his life, struggles to define himself. As he grows, he is torn between devotion to his mother and his own desire for independence and passion.

D. H. Lawrence’s homage to his travels in Mexico and the American southwest. The first four essays are products of a short visit to Oaxaca in Mexico. The following three, which include Lawrence’s classic account of the Hopi snake dance, are set in New Mexico.

The story of the physical relationship between the aristocratic protagonist Constance Chatterley and gamekeeper Oliver Mellors....

It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things – about young women, and love....

Some of the greatest poets and lovers in the English language speak of their love in this seductive and romantic collection....

With her soft brown hair, lithe figure and big, wondering eyes, Constance Chatterley is possessed of a certain vitality. Yet she is deeply unhappy; married to an invalid, she is almost as inwardly paralysed as her husband Clifford is paralysed below the waist.