D. H. Lawrence
Lawrence was the most passionate and controversial English novelist of the twentieth century, whose fiction explored sexual relationships, class conflict, and the life of the body with a seriousness and explicitness that led to the prosecution of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Sons and Lovers is his great autobiographical novel.
Works
- Sons and LoversNovel of a young man torn between his possessive mother and love
- Women in LoveNovel exploring passionate, destructive relationship between two couples
- The RainbowNovel tracing three generations of an English family through social upheaval
- Lady Chatterley's LoverNovel of a woman's affair with her gamekeeper on an English estate
- The White PeacockNovel of an aristocratic family's decline and a gamekeeper's rise