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"When the vicar''s wife went off with a young and penniless man the scandal knew no bounds. Her two little girls were only seven and nine years old respectively. And the vicar was such a good husband. True, his hair was grey. But his moustache was dark, he was handsome, and still full of furtive passion for his unrestrained and beautiful wife. Why did she go? Why did she burst away with such an éclat of revulsion, like a touch of madness? Nobody gave any answer. Only the pious said she was a bad woman. While some of the good women kept silent.

You know what it is to be born alone,Baby tortoise!The first day to heave your feet little by littlefrom the shell,Not yet awake,And remain lapsed on earth,Not quite alive.A tiny, fragile, half-animate bean.To open your tiny beak-mouth, that looks as ifit would never open,Like some iron door;To lift the upper hawk-beak from the lower baseAnd reach your skinny little neckAnd take your first bite at some dim bit ofherbage,Alone, small insect,Tiny bright-eye,Slow one.

The Selected Novels of D. H. Lawrence contains the best-known and most provocative of the esteemed author’s novels—Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Rainbow, and The Plumed Serpent. Writing in the period leading up to and following the First World War, D. H. Lawrence’s work explores the nature of personal and sexual relationships in light of industrialization and the new culture of modernity. Persecuted for his strong opinions, Lawrence spent the second part of his career in an exile he referred to as his “savage pilgrimage,” while his work continued to be censored and misrepresented. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

“The Princess” chronicles the life of Mary Henrietta “Princess” Uruqhart, whose life is dependent on the affections and sermons of her mad father. When her father passes away, Princess is forced to navigate adult relationships and her sexuality on her own, but her self-imposed repression begins to manifest destructive consequences. A striking examination of human sexuality and virtue, D. H. Lawrence’s “The Princess” uses character development and Lawrence’s distinctive narrative style to subtly bring to light the intricacies of self-awareness and sexual identity. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

We came from nothing and were given a second chance at life, and life was pretty good until it tipped on its axis and my world came tumbling down around me. My Baby Sister is missing... Stolen... Lost... I''ve never felt this helpless before now, the vacant hole inside me expanding with each passing second of not knowing where she is. What''s she going through? Is she hurt? Suffering? Alive? The more I learn of her disappearance the more fear implants itself inside my heart, hardening - darkening. The world is a depraved place, full of evil lurking behind normality. Behind smiles. Behind deception and facades. She needs me and I will do whatever it takes to find her. Whatever.

John Thomas Raynor is an inspector on the trams and Annie Stone is a conductress. He is good-looking and cocky, and he’s been out with all of the conductresses but Annie. She has a sharp tongue, and, she believes, knows his measure. Nonetheless, an exciting evening at a local fair leads to growing intimacy, and when Raynor proves uninterested in more than flirtation, Annie’s revenge is terrible. “Tickets, Please” is a short story by D.H. Lawrence set in the English Midlands during the First World War. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Set during the First World War, “The Fox” is the story of Banford and March, two women who live and work together on a farm. Unmarried and in their late twenties, the two expect to remain spinsters and thus have settled into a routine life of farm-work. When a wily fox begins to make trouble on their farm, the pair set out to do away with it, but when March comes face-to-face with the fox, she finds she cannot harm it. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

跨越階級的不倫愛戀，靈與肉之間的掙扎與覺醒 與《北回歸線》、《芬妮希爾》並列美國三大禁書， 在全球各地引發淫猥爭議的經典大作 克利福德爵士與年輕奔放的康斯坦絲成婚後，不幸於第一次世界大戰中負傷，導致腰部以下永久癱瘓。他們原都以為，只要兩人心靈契合，即使無性也能過著幸福的人生。然而，克利福德沉迷於追逐金錢與地位，讓康斯坦絲日感空虛，也促使她與守林人梅勒斯發生婚外情。這段肯定遭世人鄙夷的禁忌戀情，最終是否能夠開花結果？ 讀者除了能在書中看到勞倫斯對「性」大膽直白的描繪與剖析，亦能夠從他筆下的人物，如克利福德與看護博爾頓太太之間衍生出猶如母子的情感，守林人梅勒斯與妻子伯莎之間藉由性的互虐關係，湯米．杜克斯無法找到任何與之身心靈契合的女子，看出勞倫斯對「愛」與「人際關係」的深刻探索。 在《查泰萊夫人的情人》當中，最有趣的地方之一，是作者描述的愛情觀，不僅只聚焦在封建貴族上，同時也包含了市井小民……每個人都有屬於自己對於「愛」與「現實」的拉扯，同時又懷抱著嚮往，並互相交織、影響，或者帶來啟發。 －－作家 東燁 書籍特色： ．英國小說家兼評論家 E. M. 福斯特，稱D. H. 勞倫斯為「我們這一代最偉大的富有想像力的小說家」。 ．D. H. 勞倫斯不僅是重要的英國心理小說作家，也是英國最傑出的現代主義者之一。 ．《查泰萊夫人的情人》則是D. H. 勞倫斯的創作顛峰傑作，並曾多次被搬上銀幕或拍成電視劇。

Robert Kirkpatrick, a construction worker at the ballpark of the new Major League Baseball team beginning play in San Antonio in the upcoming 2005 season, is blackmailed by a North Korean national into planting a brief case inside a wall in the new stadium. Robert soon realizes that the brief case contains a sniper rifle and that the North Koreans plan to use it to assassinate the President of the United States at the team''s inaugural Opening Day festivities. Robert is then forced to run for his life and for the lives of his wife and daughter as the North Koreans attempt to silence him.Most of Bird''s Eye View was written in 2003 and was published in a limited run on Lulu.com in 2005 under a different pen name. I''m making it available here in that original form but at a very low price.

Tres novelas cortas que D. H. Lawrence escribió entre 1920 y 1921. En la primera de ellas, «La mariquita», un conde y oficial alemán se encuentra hospitalizado en Inglaterra al borde de la muerte por su participación en la Primera Guerra Mundial. De carácter siniestro y misterioso, pronto empieza a recibir las visitas de una joven que, aunque repelida por su oscuridad, no puede dejar de verle. En la segunda, «El muñeco del capitán», una pintora y marionetista crea un títere de su amante tan fiel que, cuando la mujer de este lo descubre en su tienda, trata por todos los medios de conseguirlo. Por último, en «El zorro», historia en la que se basó la primera película de Mark Rydell, dos mujeres que viven aisladas en una pequeña granja abren un día la puerta para toparse con un joven soldado británico que resulta ser tan astuto como un zorro. A partir de ese momento, la relación entre ambas da un vuelco que culminará en un final inesperado.