The Wedding Ring - D. H. Lawrence

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Résumé :
When D.H. Lawrence wrote The Rainbow and Women in Love he had intended for it to be a single novel. One of the names he was considering was The Wedding Ring. The publisher, however, chose to break the work into two novels. Here are the two novels once again in single form. This novel follows generations of the Brangwen family, focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters.

Biographie:
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was one of the most significant and controversial writers of the early twentieth century. Born in Nottinghamshire to a coal miner and a schoolteacher, Lawrence drew deeply upon the tensions of industrial England in shaping his fiction. His work is marked by an intense exploration of human relationships, class divisions, emotional candour, and the psychological consequences of modern industrial life.Lawrence's major novels-including Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover-challenged conventional moral and social assumptions, often provoking censorship during his lifetime. Yet beyond controversy, his writing reflects a sustained concern with vitality, individual consciousness, and the search for authentic connection in a rapidly changing world.In addition to novels, Lawrence produced poetry, essays, literary criticism, and travel writing. His restless life took him across Europe, North America, Australia, and the Mediterranean, experiences that broadened both his thematic range and his philosophical outlook. Today, he is regarded as a central figure in modernist literature and a writer whose psychological insight and stylistic intensity continue to invite careful study....

Sommaire:
When D.H. Lawrence wrote The Rainbow and Women in Love he had intended for it to be a single novel. One of the names he was considering was The Wedding Ring. The publisher, however, chose to break the work into two novels. Here are the two novels once again in single form. This novel follows generations of the Brangwen family, focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters....