You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of burning curiosity, expansive lyricism, odd humor, and radical intelligence, equaled, perhaps, only by Virginia Woolf. Here Geoff Dyer, one of the finest essayists of our day, draws on the whole range of Lawrence’s published essays to reintroduce him to a new generation of readers for whom the essay has become an important genre. We get Lawrence the book reviewer, writing about Death in Venice and welcoming Ernest Hemingway; Lawrence the travel writer, in Mexico and New Mexico and Italy; Lawrence the memoirist, depicting his strange sometime-friend Maurice Magnus; Lawrence the restless inquirer into the possibilities of the novel, writing about the novel and morality and addressing the question of why the novel matters; and, finally, the Lawrence who meditates on birdsong or the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains. Dyer’s selection of Lawrence’s essays is a wonderful introduction to a fundamental, dazzling writer.

The Present Book Is A Grateful Acknowledgement Of The Contribution Of D.H. Lawrence In The Arena Of Literature During The Twentieth Century. A Renowned Novelist, Poet And Critic, The Essential Lawrence Is Solidified In The Four Related Novels, Three In Quick Succession, The Fourth Flung Far Late, Though No Damage Done To The Running Linkage Thereby. These Four Works Sons And Lovers, A Faithful Autobiographical Account Of Lawrence S Early Years; The Rainbow, A Novel Marked For Obscenity And Frankness About Sex; Women In Love, An Analytical Study Of Sexual Depravity And An Epic Of Vice ; And Lady Chatterley S Lover, A Novel Banned Except For An Expurgated Edition Until 1959 In Spite Of Their Separate Quite Distinctive Taste And Flavour, Stand Out None In Isolation, Rather Contribute To The Main Flow Of Idea That Lawrence Held Close To His Heart As An Author. In The Present Book An Attempt Has Been Made To Examine Objectively Lawrence S Novels, Covering Both The Sides Of Their Individual Uniqueness And Their Cumulative Impact Upon The Progression Of The One Undeviated Interest.Since The Novels Discussed In The Novels Of D.H. Lawrence Are Prescribed In The English Syllabi Of The Universities Of India, Both Teachers And Students Will Find It Extensively Useful Here, And General Readers Anywhere Who May Care For Literary Values Will Also Find It Intellectually Stimulating.

'Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back. She makes Lawrence live and breathe, annoy and captivate you ... she conjures the past with such clarity and wit and flair that it feels utterly present' Katherine Rundell 'A brilliantly unconventional biography, passionately researched and written with a wild, playful energy' Richard Holmes D H Lawrence is no longer censored, but he is still on trial – and we are still unsure what the verdict should be, or even how to describe him. History has remembered him, and not always flatteringly, as a nostalgic modernist, a sexually liberator, a misogynist, a critic of genius, and a sceptic who told us not to look in his novels for 'the old stable ego', yet pioneered the genre we now celebrate as auto-fiction. But where is the real Lawrence in all of this, and how – one hundred years after the publication of Women in Love - can we hear his voice above the noise? Delving into the memoirs of those who both loved and hated him most, Burning Man follows Lawrence from the peninsular underworld of Cornwall in 1915 to post-war Italy to the mountains of New Mexico, and traces the author's footsteps through the pages of his lesser known work. Wilson's triptych of biographical tales present a complex, courageous and often comic fugitive, careering around a world in the grip of apocalypse, in search of utopia; and, in bringing the true Lawrence into sharp focus, shows how he speaks to us now more than ever. 'No biography of Lawrence that I have read comes close to Burning Man' Ferdinand Mount, author of Kiss Myself Goodbye 'The most original voice in life-writing today' Lucasta Miller, author of Keats

For D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, 'the one bright book of life', yet his non-fiction shows him at his most freewheeling and playful. This is a selection of his brilliantly varied essays, on subjects including art, morality, obscenity, songbirds, Italy, Thomas Hardy, the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains and the narcissism of photographing ourselves. Arranged chronologically to illuminate the patterns of Lawrence's thought over time, and including many little-known pieces, they reveal a writer of enduring freshness and force.

Lawrence's credo and philosophy of life expressed in religious terminology.