The Novels of D.H. Lawrence (Hardbound - 2007)

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.

R.N. Sarkar is a Ph.D. in English from Calcutta University, his thesis being approved and acclaimed by men like Robert Liddell and Sir Angus Wilson. Having worked as Reader and Head of the Department of English, Katwa College, Burdwan University, he has a long-standing teaching experience in his subject and shown deep interest in critical studies in different subjects of literature and already recorded an envied individualistic flavour of his judgement in works like India Related Naipaul (Sarup & Sons, New Delhi). Other works to his credit include: The Latest Revelation in the East (Sanskrit Pushtak Bhandar, Calcutta), A Trend in English Fiction (Firma KLM, Calcutta), Scenes in Nineteenth Century English Fiction (Associated Publishing, New Delhi), An Episodic Interpretation of Mahabharata, A Topical Survey of English Literature, A Critical Study of Joseph Conard (Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi).