Collected Short Stories

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent among other things an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality emotional health vitality spontaneity and instinct.Lawrences opinions earned him many enemies and he endured 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. The philosopher Bertrand Russell characterised Lawrence as a proto-German Fascist. Later the literary critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness.D.H. Lawrence is best known for his infamous novel Lady Chatterleys Lover which was banned in the United States until 1959. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. (Wikipedia.org)