Books by D. H. Lawrence
“Here you find what might be described as his ‘flat ontology’: his placing of human and nonhuman life on the same plane.” Read more...
Catherine Brown, Literary Scholar
“Lawrence felt that, at about the time of Socrates, philosophy and fiction became split.” Read more...
Catherine Brown, Literary Scholar
“One of Lawrence’s funniest books. I think the charge that Lawrence has no sense of humour is simply bewildering.” Read more...
Catherine Brown, Literary Scholar
“Lawrence’s description of Gerald’s death is one of his most moving pieces of Lawrence’s writing.” Read more...
Catherine Brown, Literary Scholar
“The first section is about Bavaria, the later sections are about Italy. There are a number of stunning essays.” Read more...
Catherine Brown, Literary Scholar
“It’s…a very, very passionate book. It was one of the first big works of literature to describe sexuality fully, very arousingly, and also to celebrate sexuality between classes. Because there was a whole lot of other social change at that time, particularly in Europe. We were moving from a very structured, hierarchical society to a much more equal society. Having sex up and down the classes was very new and very revolutionary. So it’s a beautiful book to read—the love between them is brilliant—but it’s also legally and sociologically a very important book.” Read more...
Susan Quilliam, Psychologist
“I chose this for two reasons. The first is because it takes you into the 20th century and it shows how the encroachment of industrialisation had an affect on the English landscape. D H Lawrence was the son of a miner and knew about all the workings of mines. But perhaps more importantly, it’s about a family. The men in that family are still close to the land while the women look outwards for knowledge, and look towards the future. Lawrence writes the most wonderful passages, even in the opening pages.” Read more...
The best books on Global Warming
Rosamund McDougall, Environmentalist
Interviews where books by D. H. Lawrence were recommended
The best books on Global Warming, recommended by Rosamund McDougall
The policy director for the Optimum Population Trust, the environmental think-tank, discusses books on Global Warming. Includes a volume on the wildlife of Borneo alongside DH Lawrence’s The Rainbow
The best books on Sex, recommended by Susan Quilliam
Sex: it’s all around us, but many of us still have questions. Relationship coach and author Susan Quilliam, who updated the 1970s classic, The Joy of Sex, talks us through the best sex guides and also some of the groundbreaking books that broke taboos and paved the way to more open-minded sexual attitudes.
The best books on Censorship, recommended by Anthony Julius
As both a solicitor advocate and literary scholar, Anthony Julius occupies a privileged place to navigate complex interactions between literature and law. He picks the best books on censorship, including three novels subjected to their own censorship controversies.
The Best D.H. Lawrence Books, recommended by Catherine Brown
Although less flamboyantly experimental than his contemporaries Joyce and Woolf, D H Lawrence was a modernist, says literary scholar Catherine Brown. Here, she selects five books that make the case for this most contradictory, and often divisive, of writers—a man whose fictions and ‘philosophicalish’ works were by turns brilliant and bewildering, sublime and ridiculous
