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The CSWR holds over 250 volumes of works by and about D.H. Lawrence. Many are early editions and only available for consultation in the Anderson Reading Room during CSWR opening hours. For reading copies of Lawrence's works available outside of the CSWR, as well as secondary material on Lawrence, please consult the Zimmerman Library catalogue here.
Dating from 1923, this edition of Lawrence's novel set in Australia is unusual for its cover art of a ship, rather than the novel's titular animal.
Call #: ZIM CSWR PR 6023 A93 K3 1923b
The front cover of a 1981 edition of The Rainbow
Call #: ZIM CSWR PR 6023 A93 R3 1981
The 1981 edition of The Rainbow with its accompanying sleeve.
Call #: ZIM CSWR PR 6023 A93 R3 1981
A 1944 Spanish edition of The Rainbow from Argentina.
Call #: ZIM CSWR PR 6023 A93 R33718 1944
Though perhaps best remembered as a novelist, D.H. Lawrence was also a prolific poet. This 1971 edition of Look! We Have Come Through!: A Cycle of Love Poems features woodcut illustrations by Felix Hoffman.
Call #: ZIM CSWR PR 6023 A93 L6 1971
Felix Hoffman's woodcuts also grace the inside cover of this 1971 edition of Look! We Have Come Through! D.H. Lawrence wrote over 800 poems over the course of his career.
Call #: ZIM CSWR PR 6023 A93 L6 1971
One of Lawrence's more controversial novels for its frank and straightforward depictions of sex, Women in Love is the sequel to Lawrence's earlier novel, The Rainbow.
This 1982 edition features a matching binding and sleeve along with cover design in the same style as the 1981 edition of The Rainbow.
Call #: ZIM CSWR PR 6023 A93 W63 1982
The back cover of this 1982 edition of Women in Love also features cover art.
Call #: ZIM CSWR PR 6023 A93 W63 1982
Like the volume to which it is a sequel, this edition of Women in Love features a sleeve to protect the cover illustrations.
Call #: ZIM CSWR PR 6023 A93 W63 1982
Not only a prolific novelist and poet, D.H. Lawrence's essays wade into all manner of social issues, perhaps most prominently relationships between the sexes.
Call #: ZIM CSWR PR 6023 A93 W4 1933
Lawrence was persecuted both officially and unofficially throughout his career for the perceived obscenity of his work. Though he underwent a period of self-imposed "exile," Lawrence nonetheless had strong feelings about censorship.
Call #: ZIM CSWR PR 6023 A93 S4
Lawrence made several trips to "Old Mexico." The desert southwest on both sides of the United States/Mexico border was a strong influence on the writer, who originally wanted to title this "novel of Mexico" Quetzalcoatl. Publishers balked at what they considered too difficult a name for English-speakers to pronounce, so the title became an English translation of the Aztec god's Nahuatl name.
Call #: ZIM CSWR PR 6023 A93 P5 1926
For publicly accessible reading copies of D.H. Lawrence's works, see below. Some editions of Lawrence's works feature a phoenix on the cover, Lawrence's personal emblem.
Lady Chatterley's Lover by
Banned, burned, and the subject of a landmark obscenity trial, Lawrence's lyric and sensual last novel is now regarded as "our time's most significant romance." -- "The New York Times. "This classic tale of love and discovery pits the paralyzed and callous Clifford Chatterley against his indecisive wife and her persuasive lover.
Sons and Lovers by
Paul Morel's childhood and early manhood in the English midlands are deeply affected by his devotion to and concern for his domineering mother.
Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays by
This book is a critical edition of D. H. Lawrence's complete essays about Mexican and Southwestern Indians, both those published in 1927 as Mornings in Mexico, and the other essays Lawrence wrote about them during his American years. The number of essays, therefore, is more than double that of all previous editions. The early version of 'Pan in America' appears here for the first time, as do previously unpublished passages in other essays. The texts are informed by all extant manuscripts, typescripts, and early publications, with a full textual apparatus revealing Lawrence's revisions. The volume includes extensive notes and appendices with information on Mesoamerican mythology and history. Lawrence's interest in and real affection for the region and its peoples went beyond the travel writing genre and these essays hold significance not only for those interested in Lawrence but also in the wider context of the cultures of Mexico and the Southwest.
Wintry Peacock by
This is an early selection of stories from one of Britain's best-loved writers, 'The Wintry Peacock' is a powerful portrayal of the devastating effects of the Great War.
The Rainbow by
D. H. Lawrence started 'The Sisters' in March 1913, wrote four different versions and claimed to have discarded 'quite a thousand pages' before completing The Rainbow in May 1915. The novel was suppressed, just over a month after publication, in November 1915. Mark Kinkead-Weekes gives the composition history and collates the surviving states of the text to assess the damage done to Lawrence's great novel, and to provide a text as close to that which the author wrote as is now possible. The final manuscript, revisions in the typescript and the first edition are recorded in the full textual apparatus so the reader can follow the development of the novel and evaluate what outside interference might have done to it. Appendixes give the earliest, unpublished fragments from the first two versions and a newly discovered report and summary of the third. Published in two volumes.
