Books
by D H Lawrence
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Lady Chatterley's Lover |
Set in Nottinghamshire, just after the Great War, the story explores the social, psychological, and sexual mores of the early Industrial Age, when the fictitious Lady Chatterley and her estate gamekeeper, Mellors, began their adulterous affair. Once banned for its sexual content, the story is about loneliness, and the longing for simple, uncomplicated sexual contact between a man and a woman. It is a beautifully written novel by one of England’s most eminent fiction writers.
(Sharron Calkins - bwl 111 Winter 2024) |
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Women in Love |
If only Lawrence had been able to use a word-processor. I can visualise him scribbling at his desk, dipping pen in ink, throwing closely written pages on the floor. Then reading them and the effort it would be to prune, edit, cut and paste before making a fair copy for his publisher. We've got used to honed language so perhaps that's why I found this so impossible to read. Yet this is his masterpiece which makes me a philistine.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 89 Summer 2018) |
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