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D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
1885–1930
A fierce, searching voice of English literature, this novelist and poet wrote with unusual candor about love, class, desire, and the strain modern life puts on the human spirit. His books still feel alive because they push past manners and convention to ask what it really means to live fully.
36 Audiobooks
Lady Chatterley's lover
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Women in Love
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The Rainbow
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Five Selected Short Stories
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
England, My England
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Studies in Classic American Literature
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Birds, Beasts and Flowers
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Aaron's Rod
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Love Poems and Others
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The Prussian Officer
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology
by Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, F. S. (Frank Stewart) Flint, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, Amy Lowell
Sea and Sardinia
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The Lost Girl
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Fantasia of the Unconscious
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The White Peacock
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Amores: Poems
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Sun
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
New Poems
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Tortoises
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Twilight in Italy
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of David H. Lawrence
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Psychoanalysis and the unconscious
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Kangaroo
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Look! We Have Come Through!
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Embankment at Night
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The Trespasser
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Some Imagist Poets, 1916: An Annual Anthology
by Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, F. S. (Frank Stewart) Flint, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, Amy Lowell
Wintry Peacock
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Touch and Go: A Play in Three Acts
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Bay: A Book of Poems
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Glad ghosts
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd: A Drama in Three Acts
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The Last Laugh
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The Boy in the Bush
by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, M. L. (Mary Louisa) Skinner
About the author
Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885, D. H. Lawrence grew up in a mining community, an experience that deeply shaped his writing about class, family life, and industrial society. He worked as a teacher before turning fully to literature, and over a relatively short life he produced novels, short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, plays, and criticism.
Lawrence is best known for novels including Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. His work often explores intimacy, emotional conflict, the natural world, and the damage he believed modern industrial life could do to human feeling and freedom. That frankness made him one of the most controversial writers of his time, but it also helped secure his lasting influence.
He spent much of his later life traveling in Europe, Australia, Mexico, and the American Southwest, seeking places and ways of living beyond the conventions he resisted in England. Lawrence died in 1930 at the age of 44, yet his reputation continued to grow, and he is now widely seen as one of the major literary figures of the early 20th century.