D.H. Lawrence Short Story Collection

Author: (British) Suren Wu Zeqing, Yang Jiping
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Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
Features: David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England, in 1885. His father was a miner, and his mother was once a teacher. Due to his father's alcoholism, the family broke apart, and his mother took the five children away from their father. At the age of 12, Lawrence won a county scholarship, which enabled him to attend Nottingham High School. After graduating from high school, Lawrence became a junior clerk in Nottinghamshire, but the heavy workload made him sick. During his long illness, his mother cared for him, giving her the opportunity to control Lawrence. The mother-son relationship is key to understanding Lawrence's novels. The Son and Lover (1913) tells the story of their love. In 1911, The White Peacock was published, and Lawrence was inspired by the income from the book to give up teaching and begin his writing career. In 1912, Lawrence published his second novel, The Rainbow, but he soon decided to go to Germany to teach. In Germany, Lawrence began writing Sisteries, but the book was ultimately divided into two parts, with the first part published as The Rainbow in 1915. In 1920, he published The Lost Girl, and in 1921, Women in Love, which caused some critics to be outraged at the time; in 1921, Lawrence also published a travelogue, Sea and Sardinia, and in 1922, Aaron's Rod. This book was published in 1922 and is Lawrence's second collection of short stories, indicating that this form was very suitable for him, including some of his best works. After visiting England in 1926, Lawrence began writing Lady Chatterley's Lover while traveling to Italy, and it was first published in 1928, but in England, it was not published in its uncut form until 1961. Lawrence's works often condemn the middle class as the source of social diseases. His focus on the concept of life, his resistance to the mechanization and labor brought by industrialization, and his analysis of gender relationships made him a revolutionary force in English literature.