1. D. H. Lawrence and Italy
D. H. Lawrence and Italy brings together Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia and Etruscan Places. Lawrence travels through communities around Lake Garda, crosses Sardinia by rail and road, and visits the surviving tombs and landscapes of the Etruscan cities of central Italy. The journeys are…
2. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
After Clifford Chatterley returns from the First World War paralysed, he and his wife Connie settle at Wragby Hall beside the mining community that supports his estate. Clifford devotes himself to writing, business and the management of the pits, while Connie becomes increasingly isolated within a…
3. Letters from a Stoic
Letters from a Stoic is a selection from Seneca’s Moral Letters to Lucilius, a series of philosophical letters written during the final years of his life. Addressed to his friend Lucilius, a Roman administrator, the letters turn Stoic philosophy into practical counsel on time, death, wealth,…
4. Sons and Lovers
Gertrude Morel’s marriage to the miner Walter Morel deteriorates under the pressure of poverty, drink and repeated conflict in their Nottinghamshire home. She redirects her ambitions towards their children, first William and then Paul, determined that her sons will escape the colliery life and social limitations…
5. The Gambler and Other Stories
This Penguin Classics collection brings together White Nights, A Christmas Party and a Wedding, A Nasty Story, The Gambler, Bobok, The Meek One and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. In the title novella, Alexei Ivanovich works as tutor to the family of an indebted Russian…
6. The Rainbow
The Rainbow follows three generations of the Brangwen family as rural life in the English Midlands is transformed by industrial growth and changing social expectations. Tom Brangwen marries the Polish widow Lydia Lensky and raises her daughter Anna, whose passionate and troubled marriage to Tom’s nephew…
7. Women in Love
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen become involved with two men from the industrial Midlands: the school inspector Rupert Birkin and the mine owner Gerald Crich. Ursula and Birkin struggle towards a relationship based on equality and personal freedom, while Gudrun is drawn to Gerald’s power even as…