D. H. Lawrence

  • 121

    Catalog books

  • 43

    Works

  • 1956 to 2025

    Strongest span

Who This Author Is

D. H. Lawrence’s fiction probes the tensions between instinct and social constraint, often set against rural landscapes and intimate relationships. St. Mawr and Other Stories collects shorter work that highlights his restless prose, frank emotional intensity, and interest in how characters seek authenticity amid modern pressures.

These stories present Lawrence’s recurring themes—animalistic vitality, class friction, and creative longing—through compressed narratives and vivid psychological detail. Readers encounter characters grappling with desire, dislocation, and artistic yearning, rendered in language that favours feeling and sensory immediacy over neat resolution.

Best Place To Start

Author At A Glance

Best known for: Intense psychological insight • Raw explorations of desire and relationships • Lyrical, sometimes controversial prose

Genres and themes: Modernist fiction • Short stories • Human conflict and nature • Sex, class, and intimacy

Who this author is best for: For readers who want emotionally frank, sensory writing that probes desire, conflict, and moral complexity.

Begin with his short stories to sample varied voices and themes before diving into longer novels.

Top Books To Start With

  1. St. Mawr and Other Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

    Penguin Group USA • 2007 • standard commitment

    UPB note: year signal: 2007 • 272 pages.

  2. Women in Love Volume II [EasyRead Comfort Edition]

    ReadHowYouWant.com • 2007 • longer commitment

    UPB note: one of the most common used-copy publishers for this author • year signal: 2007 • 420 pages.

  3. Women in Love Volume II [EasyRead Edition]

    ReadHowYouWant.com • 2007 • longer commitment

    UPB note: one of the most common used-copy publishers for this author • year signal: 2007 • 356 pages.

  4. Sons And Lovers Volume II [EasyRead Edition]

    ReadHowYouWant.com • 2006 • longer commitment

    UPB note: one of the most common used-copy publishers for this author • year signal: 2006 • 376 pages.

  5. The Plumed Serpent Volume I [EasyRead Edition]

    ReadHowYouWant.com • 2006 • longer commitment

    readers who want one of the clearer starting points on this page

  6. The Plumed Serpent Volume II [EasyRead Edition]

    ReadHowYouWant.com • 2006 • longer commitment

    UPB note: one of the most common used-copy publishers for this author • year signal: 2006 • 360 pages.

  7. St. Mawr and the Man Who Died

    Dover Publications, Incorporated • 2025 • standard commitment

    It stands out because it asks for less time than many of the longer volumes on this page.

  8. Lady Chatterly's Lover

    Gray Rabbit Publishing • 2018 • standard commitment

    UPB note: year signal: 2018 • 302 pages.

  9. D.H. Lawrence - A Modern Lover & Other Stories

    Lawrence Publishing • 2014 • standard commitment

    UPB note: year signal: 2014 • 182 pages.

  10. The Second Lady Chatterley's Lover (Oneworld Classics)

    Oneworld Classics • 2008 • longer commitment

    UPB note: year signal: 2008 • 400 pages.

How The Picks Compare

  • St. Mawr and Other Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) is the easier short commitment, while Women in Love Volume II [EasyRead Comfort Edition] asks for more reading time up front.
  • Women in Love Volume II [EasyRead Edition] is also useful if you want a different publishing lane from St. Mawr and Other Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics).

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