D. H. Lawrence

New collection of tales by a master of English style.

It is 1882 and handsome, blue-eyed Jack Grant, not quite 18 and "a little sinner" has arrived in Australia from England in search of a new life. He quickly rejects the staid conventions of Perth society for the challenges of the Australian bush. Toughened by his experiences, he emerges a new man.

"A book which has achieved more notoriety for its sex scenes (shocking in 1930, when the book was written) than for its character studies, Lady Chatterley's Lover focuses on the affair between Constance, the "sturdy" young wife of Clifford Chatterley, and the gamekeeper of the Chatterleys' estate in the remote midlands. Constance, who married Clifford a month before he left for World War I, has become his caretaker since his return from the war, paralyzed...

D.H. Lawrence wrote these three 'novelettes' between November 1920 and December 1921; they were enthusiastically received by his English publisher and his readers. The ending of the first version of 'The Fox', written in December 1918, is given in an appendix; Lawrence added a 'long tail' two years later, expanding the story to about three times its original length. 'The Ladybird' also started out as a short story, but was completely rewritten; two...