D. H. Lawrence

Sea and Sardinia   by D.H.Lawrence   Narrated by Phil Benson   At th...

'A Prelude' was written by D H Lawrence in 1907. It was the first of his sixty-seven shor...

'Lessford's Rabbits' was written by D H Lawrence in 1908. It was the second of his sixty-...

'A Lesson on a Tortoise' is set in a local school and shows how Lawrence was ground down ...

‘A Fly in the Ointment’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1908. It was the fourt...

'The Man Who Loved Islands' is a haunting story of a man who tries to control his life by...

‘Love Among the Haystacks’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1912. It was the ei...

‘Daughters of the Vicar’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1911. It was the elev...

‘The Old Adam’ The story is set in lodgings in Croydon and the incident may ...

?'Goose Fair' was written by D H Lawrence in 1910. Lawrence sets his story against the ba...

'A Modern Lover' was written by D H Lawrence in 1909. A young man returns home to his fir...

'The Rocking Horse Winner' is one of Lawrence's more popular short stories with its mixtu...

'The Christening' was written by D H Lawrence in 1911. Lawrence is at his best in this st...

?‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1911. Lawrence is a...

'The Miner at Home ' was written by D H Lawrence in 1912. Lawrence is at his best in this...

'Her Turn' was written by D H Lawrence in 1912. Lawrence is at his best in this story, ta...

?'Delilah and Mr Bircumshaw was written by D H Lawrence in 1912. Lawrence is beginning to...

'A Chapel and a Hayhut among the Mountains'. This piece of writing falls between the shor...

'Once' was written by D H Lawrence in 1912. The story is largely autobiographical, writte...

'New Eve and Old Adam' was written by D H Lawrence in 1912. The story is largely autobio...

'Christs in the Tirol' is more of an essay on this peculiar art form than a short story, ...

'Second Best' was written by D H Lawrence in 1912. In this delicate story of boy-girl lov...

In 'Strike Pay', Lawrence returns to the scenes of his boyhood in Eastwood in Nottinghams...

'The Shades of Spring'. In this story the hero has moved on in the world and is married y...

'The Prussian Officer'. There is an anti-militarism theme, unpopular as the nation drew n...

‘The Thorn in the Flesh’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1914. The story can ...

'A Sick Collier'. Lawrence returns in this story to the scenes of his childhood and the c...

'The White Stocking'. In this beautifully observed study of a new marriage and the sexual...

'The Shadow in the Rose Garden'. Lawrence is often accused of misogyny and this story use...

'Adolf' is a charming story of a wild rabbit introduced by the father into a miner's home...

'Tickets Please' returns Lawrence to his native Nottingham during the first world war. T...

'Samson and Delilah' is set against a Cornish backdrop. Lawrence and his wife tried to se...

'The Mortal Coil' is one of Lawrence's darker stories. From adversity the lovers find a k...

In 'The Thimble', Lawrence moves to the world of the affluent middle classes, a world to ...

'You Touched Me' is a comic/tragic story of a forced marriage brought about by an accide...

The theme of the woman for whom the man is not 'good enough' is worked out fully in Lawre...

'Wintry Peacock' is, on the surface, a tale of misdirected love or even irresponsible lov...

The hero of this story returns to England to undertake a 'respectable' marriage but is dr...

'The Blind Man' is a delicate study of a loving relationship blighted by the man's blindn...

'Rex' is a riotous story of the turmoil caused in a household by the arrival of a puppy. ...

'The Princess' of the story is a spoiled, sexless woman who is thrown in with a passionat...

'The Overtone' looks at a sterile marriage with no children and no spontaneous sexual fee...

‘The Horse Dealer's Daughter’ is a story, gripping in its content. It encompa...

‘The Primrose Path’ looks at what can be the ephemeral nature of man and woma...

‘Monkey Nuts’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1922. 'Monkey Nuts' turns the tr...

‘The Wilful Woman’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1922. 'The Wilful Woman' re...

'The Flying Fish' is unfinished but tells the story of an Englishman, Gethin Day, returni...

'The Border Line' is unusual in that Lawrence dabbles in the supernatural (as he was to d...

‘Smile’ is one of Lawrence's shorter pieces, a thumbnail sketch of an idea. A...

'Jimmy and the Desperate Woman' tells the improbable story of an intellectual editor pers...