England My England David Herbert Lawrence 9781542558693 Books
Download As PDF : England My England David Herbert Lawrence 9781542558693 Books
No Description Available David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an important and controversial English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, sexuality, and instinctive behaviour. Lawrence's unsettling opinions earned him many enemies and he endured hardships, official persecution, censorship and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. He is now generally valued as a visionary thinker and a significant representative of modernism in English literature, although some feminists object to the attitudes toward women and sexuality found in his works.
England My England David Herbert Lawrence 9781542558693 Books
A series of short stories by DH Lawrence, I found them to be beautifully written, evoking the era of the First World War and after. Whilst I enjoyed reading them, knowing the countryside around Eastwood, where Lawrence lived, but felt just a little disappointed that in several cases there was no definite outcome to the story. One had to imagine what would have happened. Maybe this is Lawrence's deliberate style, differeing from the short stories of today, I don't know, but if anyone needs a remionder of how English should be written, these stories are a fine example.Product details
|
Tags : England, My England [David Herbert Lawrence] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. No Description Available David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an important and controversial English writer of the 20th century,David Herbert Lawrence,England, My England,CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform,1542558697,Short Stories (Single Author),FICTION Short Stories (single author),Fiction
People also read other books :
- Krakow Poland 110 000 Pocket Street Map laminated FREYTAG Freytag Berndt Books
- An American Physician in Turkey a Narrative of Adventures in Peace and War Classic Reprint Clarence D Ussher Books
- THE NOVELLO BARBERSHOP SONGBOOK 2 TENOR 2 BASS TTBB VARIOUS 9780711930131 Books
- Lessons from a Difficult Person How to Deal with People Like Us Sarah H Elliston MAT 9781627474061 Books
- Murder At Zero Hour edition by Paul Westwood Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
England My England David Herbert Lawrence 9781542558693 Books Reviews
D. H. Lawrence has written almost as many collections of short stories as novels. England, My England from 1922 is the first such collection that I have read. I normally do not enjoy the short story format, yet while I was still reading my first Lawrence novel, Sons and Lovers, I thought that the shorter format would suit Lawrence (and me, the fussy reader) better. In comparison to the length of time it took me to finish Sons and Lovers and Women in Love, I raced through the stories in England, My England, with the exception of the first story, the title of which the collection was named after.
It did not bode well that such a boring story should start the collection, but in it Lawrence reveals the same contradictions that typify his writing and continue throughout his stories. In "England, My England", he writes
"But he [Winifred's husband] would not give himself to what Winifred called life, Work. No, he would not go into the world and work for money. No, he just would not. If Winifred liked to live beyond their small income--well, it was her look-out."
Throughout the story Winifred bemoaned that her husband Egbert would not go out and get a job. In spite of this, she also felt
"And Winifred did not really want him to go out into the world to work for money. Money became, alas, a word like a firebrand between them, setting them both aflame with anger."
The stories get better, and the dialogue and descriptions become racier and less couched in euphemism. The final story, "Fanny and Annie", deals with a woman returning to her hometown to marry her first love. Fanny no longer loves Harry as passionately as she felt ten years ago, yet is settling for him since she feels she has no better options. Harry, meanwhile, has slept around with the loosest woman in town, Annie. Annie's mother causes a scandalous scene (in church, no less) where she interrupts the choir and yells out to the entire congregation that Harry has gotten her daughter pregnant and abandoned her. This was a real page-turner and I rushed through the story excitedly.
Lawrence's contradictions appear in "Fanny and Annie" as well. While Harry is singing his solo in the choir, his fiancée Fanny thinks
"He, it goes without saying, sang like a canary this particular afternoon, with a certain defiant passion which pleasantly crisped the blood of the congregation."
and then, in the same paragraph
"But, oh, also, it was so repugnant."
One of the funniest stories was "Tickets, Please", where the conductors of a tram-car company, all women, corner the womanizing inspector and beat him up. The inspector had dated and promised the world to all the women in the firm and they beat him into making him select just one of them.
There are more D. H. Lawrence novels in my library that I want to read but no other short story collections. After England, My England, I will seek them out.
I had to read one chapter for school, but I like reading things on my better than a book. It seemed to be a great story, I hope to get to start at the beginning and read to the end very soon.
Lawrence was always wonderful. I recommend it to anyone who loves English literature. I chose it because it contained some short stories I hadn't yet read.
A series of short stories by DH Lawrence, I found them to be beautifully written, evoking the era of the First World War and after. Whilst I enjoyed reading them, knowing the countryside around Eastwood, where Lawrence lived, but felt just a little disappointed that in several cases there was no definite outcome to the story. One had to imagine what would have happened. Maybe this is Lawrence's deliberate style, differeing from the short stories of today, I don't know, but if anyone needs a remionder of how English should be written, these stories are a fine example.
0 Response to "≫ Descargar Free England My England David Herbert Lawrence 9781542558693 Books"
Post a Comment