Dernier grand texte de D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse déploie une vision poétique et prophétique où chaos et renaissance s’entremêlent.

« Baissant les yeux, elle vit soudain le renard qui la regardait, le menton baissé, les yeux levés sur elle. Ils se rencontrèrent et il la posséda. Envoûtée, elle sut qu'il la possédait. Il la regardait au fond des yeux, et son âme défaillait. Il la connaissait, il n'avait pas peur. Elle lutta, revint confusément à elle, et le vit qui filait, bondissant lentement, avec insolence, au-dessus des buissons. Puis il jeta un coup d'oeil par-dessus son épaule et s'esquiva en silence. Elle aperçut sa queue touffue, lisse comme une plume, l'éclat de son arrière-train blanc, puis plus rien : il avait disparu, aussi rapide que le vent. » D.H. Lawrence

Le roman le plus connu de D.H. Lawrence. Son succès repose sur l'idée que c'est le chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature érotique, l'histoire d'une épouse frustrée, au mari impuissant, et qui trouve l'épanouissement physique dans les bras vigoureux de son garde-chasse. Mais l'importance du livre est dans la peinture d'un choc historique et social qui constitue le monde moderne. Entre la communauté rurale anglaise et le monde industriel, c'est tout le tissu d'un pays qui se déchire. La forêt du roman, où vit Mellors, le garde-chasse, représente le dernier espace de sauvagerie et de liberté ; lady Chatterley l'y retrouve et s'y retrouve, tout en voyant basculer son univers habituel. Ce roman poétique doit être lu comme un mélange de voyage initiatique, de descente aux enfers, comme une grande lamentation sur l'état de l'Angleterre, aux échos bibliques. L'intrigue amoureuse séduit à une première lecture ; mais le roman a une valeur historique et symbolique.

Édition enrichie (Avant-propos et notes)" Epouse frustrée d'un mari infirme, Constance Chatterley vit avec son garde-chasse une passion où le désir physique est indissociable de la complicité spirituelle. Bravant les interdits de leur milieu, les deux amants iront jusqu'au bout de leur défi et donneront naissance à un fils. Objet de scandale à sa parution en 1928, ce roman est pourtant bien davantage qu'un " classique de l'érotisme " : " J'ai toujours oeuvré, écrivit D.H. Lawrence, pour que la sexualité soit vécue de façon authentique et sacrée, et non pas de manière honteuse. Et c'est dans ce roman que je suis allé le plus loin. Il est pour moi beau, tendre et fragile comme ce qui est nu. " Dernier roman publié par Lawrence, L'Amant de Lady Chatterley est l'aboutissement de son oeuvre et son testament philosophique. "

Lawrence dénonce dans cet écrit sur l'art la maladie charnelle dont, selon lui, la Beauté est atteinte. Les arts y jetteraient un voile pudique en refusant de représenter le corps, surtout dans sa dimension sexuelle, et se spiritualiseraient en choisissant le paysage pour objet. L'art serait devenu ennuyeux, dénué de passion et de sensualité. Lawrence oppose ici les maîtres anglais, de Constable à Turner, aux Impressionnistes français qui, s'ils n'échappent pas au cliché, ont inventé la lumière, et entretiennent un rapport au corps, hygiénique certes, mais jouisseur. Seul Cézanne avec ses pommes échappe aux limites imposées par l'esprit et à célébrer la matière. Avec verve, ironie et cynisme, D.H. Lawrence plaide ici en faveur d'un art libéré de toute entrave.

The Complete Novels, Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, and Poems of D. H. Lawrence: Illustrated Edition is a comprehensive collection celebrating the extraordinary literary career of D. H. Lawrence, one of the defining voices of modern English literature. Bringing together his finest novels, novellas, short stories, plays, and poetry in a single illustrated volume, this edition offers readers an immersive journey through a body of work that challenged conventions and transformed twentieth-century fiction. From the emotional depth of Sons and Lovers and the powerful family saga of The Rainbow to the philosophical intensity of Women in Love, the timeless romance of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and the cultural exploration of The Plumed Serpent, every work reflects Lawrence's unique artistic vision and fearless originality. Beyond his celebrated novels, this collection showcases the remarkable breadth of Lawrence's talent. His short stories capture unforgettable moments of ordinary life with psychological precision, while his novellas explore human passion, isolation, and transformation in compelling detail. The plays reveal his dramatic imagination, and the poetry expresses his profound appreciation of nature, instinct, and the inner life. Throughout every genre, Lawrence combines lyrical prose, vivid symbolism, and penetrating insight into the complexities of love, identity, society, and the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Enhanced with carefully selected illustrations, this edition provides an engaging reading experience for both longtime admirers and newcomers alike. It serves as an excellent introduction to Lawrence's diverse literary achievements while also functioning as a definitive library collection for readers interested in classic English literature. Rich in emotional depth, intellectual ambition, and unforgettable storytelling, these works continue to resonate with modern audiences, confirming D. H. Lawrence's lasting place among the most influential and enduring authors of the twentieth century.

In the heart of a remote mining town, Aaron Sisson, a young, charismatic minister, arrives to ignite a spiritual awakening. But as he preaches his message of love and redemption, he finds himself entangled in a web of forbidden desires and hidden secrets. Aaron's Rod is a provocative and deeply moving novel that explores the complexities of faith, sexuality, and the search for meaning in a world on the brink of change. D.H. Lawrence's lyrical prose and unflinching honesty create a powerful and unforgettable tale that will resonate with readers long after they turn the final page.

In the sun-drenched hills of Italy, a young woman named Miriam finds herself drawn into a passionate affair with a mysterious stranger. As their love deepens, Miriam discovers a hidden world of sensuality and desire that challenges her very being. But their forbidden romance is threatened by the watchful eyes of society and the weight of their own pasts. "Tortoises" is a tale of forbidden love, sexual awakening, and the search for true identity. D. H. Lawrence's lyrical prose and unflinching exploration of human nature create a mesmerizing and unforgettable reading experience.

The Rainbow is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a sexual and religious collection of incidents that eventually shows the inertia of an individual consciousness to outgrow the commonplace and embrace the reality that lies beyond it. Throughout the novel, including its setting, the characters are being isolated because of their deviation from a conformist English society in a changing, steadily industrializing world.

A man is speaking to a group of colliers in a small mining village. They have decided that they have had enough of the way they are treated and decide to go on strike. A battle of wills ensues.

A book of ten short stories, written with Lawrence's typical sensibility to and awareness of social mores, set around the period of the First World War

There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to. In this most under-valued of his novels, Lawrence once again presents us with a young woman hemmed in by her middle-class upbringing and longing for escape. Alvina Houghton's plight, however, is given a rather comic and even picaresque treatment. Losing first her mother, a perpetual invalid, and later her cross-dressing father, a woefully ineffectual small-scale entrepreneur, Alvina feels doomed to merge with the tribe of eternal spinsters who surround her in the dreary mining community of Woodhouse. Into this drab environment enter the Natcha-Kee-Tawara: a polyglot, poly-amorous troupe of travelling players united, on- and off-stage, in a fantasy of Native American nomadism. Enter Ciccio, the surly dark-eyed horseman. The Italian's potent and threatening physicality overwhelms Alvina and soon will propel her into - what? Perdition, or the paradoxical freedom of a girl who 'like being lost'?

Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rainbow attempts to situate the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family within the continuous social change marking the Victorian transformation of Britain. Farmer Tom and his Polish wife Lydia, whose peaceful rural existence re-enacts the potent myths of Genesis; artisan Will and the matriarch Anna, who go to live among the industrial and mining communities so rapidly sprung up around Nottingham; finally the restless Ursula who, moving to the city, seeks sexual and emotional fulfilment with the Polish-descended Skrebensky - the three couples are not merely illustrative of the changing times, but allow the author to study in depth the conflict between the outer 'social' selves of those individuals and what he curiously calls the 'inhuman' essential being, the 'is-ness' at the core of their psychical life. Lawrence evokes this dark, unconscious 'vital core' through a language of breathtaking poetic beauty; a rhythmic incantatory prose which listeners to this recording will find perfectly rendered by Tony Foster, in all its nuances. Like Paul Morel, the hero of the earlier Sons and Lovers, Ursula survives her losses to face a future of uncertain but radiant hope: "She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven."

The collection of short stories - of which The Prussian Officer is one - was Lawrence's first such book. A German officer and his orderly are the focus of the piece and, while socially the superior of his orderly, the officer demonstrates his is the distinctly baser character.

D.H. Lawrence considered 'The Plumed Serpent' his best novel, while some critics considered it blasphemous and misogynistic. Controversy followed the author around, but this is a thrilling and original tale set in post-revolutionary Mexico. Irish tourist Kate Leslie meets Don Cipriano and Don Ramon Carrasco, founders of the religious movement The Men of Quetzalcoatl. They believe themselves to be reincarnated Aztec gods and aim to wipe from the face of Mexico all worship of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. As Cipriano seeks to marry Kate, the nation is hit by religious murder, fighting and the burning of Christian artifacts. The violence builds and Kate is drawn inexorably to the mysterious beliefs of the followers of Quetzalcoatl. Who will claim Kate's soul - and which side will triumph in the battle for the hearts and minds of Mexico? 'The Plumed Serpent' is perfect for fans of John Steinbeck, Karl Heller and Cormac McCarthy. DH Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English writer and poet. He was at the centre of a great deal of controversy during and after his life, with the explicit nature of some of his novels leading to censorship and protests. Many critics admired his imaginative and deeply descriptive style, though. Among his best-known novels are 'Sons and Lovers', 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', 'The Rainbow' and 'Women in Love'.

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The Rainbow is an epic tale spanning three generations of Brangwens, a family of farmers living in Nottinghamshire around the time of the Industrial Revolution. The tale begins with Tom Brangwen, the very epitome of a rural English farmer leading the old way of life. We follow him as a youth easing in to the rhythm of rural existence. He soon falls in love with Lydia, a Polish immigrant he had hired as a housekeeper, and despite their vast cultural differences, the two marry. Their relationship is, in a word, satisfactory: the two face a language and culture barrier that prevents their minds from ever truly meeting, but they learn to be more or less content with their place in society and in raising their children. Lydia's child by her first marriage, Anna, becomes the focus of the next part of the novel. She was born in England, and has a fiery and demanding temperament. She falls in love with Will, a nephew of Tom, and the two begin a rocky and difficult marriage. Will, a craftsman and not a farmer, is selfabsorbed, and wants nothing more than for them to live their lives only for each other. But Anna wants to strike out in the world and become a part of society. The two must reconcile their clashing personalities and desires as they raise their many children. The oldest of their children, Ursula, becomes the focus of the last third-and perhaps most famous-part of the novel. Ursula is a deeply sensual being born in to the Victorian era, a time restrained in morality but exploding in energy and possibility, now worlds away from her grandfather Tom Brangwen's quiet, traditional farming life. She leads a life unimaginable to her rural ancestors: indulging in travel abroad, waiting for marriage and pursuing her physical desires, and even taking on a career-a concept both new and frightening to her family, who are just a generation removed from the era when a woman's life was led at home. Her unhappiness with the contradiction in this new unbridled way of living and the strict social mores of the era becomes the main theme of this last part of the book. The entire novel takes a frank approach to sexuality and physical desire, with sex portrayed unashamedly as a natural, powerful, pleasurable, and desirable force in relationships. In fact Ursula's story is the most famous part of the novel not just because of her unrestrained physicality and lust, but because she also experiments with a candidlyrealized homosexual affair with one of her teachers. This unheardof treatment of deeply taboo topics was poorly received by Lawrence's Edwardian contemporaries, and the book quickly became the subject of an obscenity trial that resulted in over 1,000 copies being burned and the book being banned in the U.K. for eleven years. Though its charged portrayal of sexuality is what the book is remembered for, sexuality is only one of the themes Lawrence treats. The novel stands solidly on its rich description of both rural and city life, its wideangled view of change over generations, and its exploration of hope for the human spirit in societies that heave not gently but quickly and violently into new eras.

Mornings in Mexico is a collection of travel essays by D. H. Lawrence about Mexico where he travelled several times and was fascinated by what he observed there of the exotic people and their way of life. It displays Lawrence's gifts as a travel writer, catching the "spirit of place'' in his own vivid manner.

"Lawrence's first novel is set in Nethermere (his name for the real-life Eastwood in Nottinghamshire). The plot is narrated by Cyril Beardsall and focuses in particular on the relationship of his sister Lettie with two admirers, the more handsome and down to earth George and the more effete gentleman Leslie. She eventually marries Leslie although she is sexually attracted to George. George marries the conventional Meg and both marriages end in unhappiness. The countryside of the English midlands is beautifully evoked and there is powerful description also of the impact of industrialisation on both town and country. (Summary by Simon Evers)"

"Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912: "It follows this idea: a woman of character and refinement goes into the lower class, and has no satisfaction in her own life. She has had a passion for her husband, so her children are born of passion, and have heaps of vitality. But as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers - first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother - urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives, and holds them..." The present reader tells the story in his authentic regional English, featuring the East Midlands dialect used by Lawrence in the more intimate exchanges between characters. (Summary prepared by Martin Geeson.)"

Following the death of her parents, a young and innocent Fanny Hill travels to London to find work. She has barely arrived, however, when she is lured into a brothel and has a sexual experience with another woman. A costumer gets her out of there and becomes her lover, but a whole new world has opened to Fanny, who sets out to explore all the pleasures her body has in store for her. Considered the first prose pornography `Fanny Hill - Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure' (1748) is one of the most prosecuted and banned books of all time. It has often been quoted in popular culture, in Tom Lehrer's song "Smut" and in an episode of `Monty Python's Flying Circis' to name a couple. LUST Classics is a collection of erotic literary classics. Although some of their content can appear controversial, these titles have been selected due to their historical importance within the field of erotic literature.

"You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered." The sophisticated woman Gertrude falls in love with a miner, but only after their wedding does she find out the truth about his poor financial situation. As their marriage grows more toxic by the day Gertrude turn her attention and care towards her sons instead. But her love suffocates them, to the point where they do not know how to be with other women. Beautifully written with and memorable characters, `Sons and Lovers` is a highly autobiographical portrayal of adolescence and the clash of generations. LUST Classics is a collection of erotic literary classics. Although some of their content can appear controversial, these titles have been selected due to their historical importance within the field of erotic literature.

"He lifted her, and seemed to pour her into himself, like wine into a cup (...) So she relaxed, and seemed to melt, to flow into him, as if she were some infinitely warm and precious suffusion filling into his veins, like an intoxicant." The second novel about the Brangwen family, `Women in Love` (1920), narrows in on sisters Ursula and Gudrun, who, though very close, have a fiery relationship. As teachers at a grammar school they become involved with the school inspector, Rupert Birkin, and the wealthy son of a local colliery owner, Gerald Crich. What is not immediately apparent to them is the deep and complicated relationship between the two men. D.H. Lawrence wrote the character of Birking as a thinly disguised version of himself while author Katherine Mansfield was his inspiration behind the youngest sister Gudrun. In the well-received BBC miniseries from 2011, Gudrun was portrayed by award-winning actress Rosamund Pike. LUST Classics is a collection of erotic literary classics. Although some of their content can appear controversial, these titles have been selected due to their historical importance within the field of erotic literature.

In De regenboog volgen we drie generaties van de Engelse familie Brangwen, van halverwege de negentiende tot het begin van de twintigste eeuw. In deze periode zien we de familie veranderen van een klassiek boerengezin tot een moderne familie met dochters die gaan studeren en op vele fronten een grotere vrijheid genieten. De regenboog was in de tijd dat het verscheen erg omstreden vanwege de liberale omgang met het thema seksualiteit. Lawrence schrijft openhartig over lust en beschrijft zelfs een lesbische romance. Hierdoor was het boek in Engeland geruime tijd verboden. Lawrence schreef later nog een vervolg op De Regenboog, getiteld Women in Love.

Moby-Dick et la critique percutante de D. H. Lawrence : voici l’un des plus grands romans d’aventure et de philosophie, où la chasse obsessionnelle d’Ahab rencontre l’analyse visionnaire d’un autre géant de la littérature.