D. H. Lawrence

Connie's unhappy marriage to Clifford Chatterley is scarred by mutual frustration and alienation. Her solitary existence is contained within the stifling parameters of Wragby, the Chatterley ancestral home. Connie is then presented with a chance to seize happiness and freedom when she finds herself in a consuming love affair with the estate's gamekeeper, Mellors, and discovers a world of sexual...

A selection of D. H. Lawrence's writings on art, morality and obscenity, edited & selected by Geoff Dyer. For D. H. Lawrence, the novel was the pinnacle, 'the one bright book of life', yet his non-fiction shows him at his most freewheeling and playful. This is a selection of his brilliantly varied essays, on subjects including art, morality, obscenity, songbirds,...