3 books
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1. El amante de Lady Chatterley
Publicada por primera vez en Florencia en 1928, "El amante de Lady Chatterley" es una historia de una relación adúltera entre una mujer de clase alta, sexualmente insatisfecha, y un empleado de su marido es una inteligente crítica a la sociedad puritana de principios del siglo XX.Se trata de la obra más conocida y controvertida de David Herbert Lawrence, prohibida durante años en diversos países.Inválido de guerra, Sir Clifford Chatterley y su esposa Connie llevan una existencia acomodada, aparentemente plácida, rodeada de los placeres burgueses de las reuniones sociales y regida por los correctos términos que deben ser propios de todo buen matrimonio. Connie, sin embargo, no puede evitar sentir un vacío vital. La irrupción en su vida de Mellors, el guardabosque de la mansión familiar, la pondrá en contacto con las energías más primarias e instintivas y relacionadas con la vida. La fuerte corriente relacionada con la energía s****l que recorre casi toda la obra de David Herbert Lawrence encuentra una de sus máximas expresiones en "El amante de Lady Chatterley", novela que se vio envuelta en la polémica y el escándalo desde el momento de su aparición.
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2. The Lost Girl
Originally published in 1920, "The Lost Girl", David Herbert Lawrence’s forgotten novel, is a passionate tale of longing and s****l defiance, of devastation and destitution.The daughter of well-to-do trades people in the fictional mining town of Woodhouse, Alvina Houghton struggles to find excitement in her provincial surroundings and worries that she is condemned to become an old maid. After plans to elope with her lover to Australia and train as a nurse in London lead to nothing, she joins a traveling theater group and succumbs to the charms of the dark, passionate Italian Ciccio...
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3. England, My England
That David Herbert Lawrence is actually a man of realistic, insightful fiction shows best in his novels. And when it comes to short fiction, he tends to preserve not only the essence of his fictional wordsmithy but also the style. First published in 1922, "England, My England", a collection of ten short stories by Lawrence is an example.Most of the stories were written against the backdrop of the World War I, taking war and its destruction as its main concern.If you are a Lawrence fan, this book will surely not fail in touching you. If you haven’t read his fiction before, you may be left wondering or confused at times. Yet, all will be able to see how Lawrence breaks away from the traditional style of story-telling of his time.
