D. H. Lawrence

Beauvale is the largest parish in England, and the vicar of Beauvale is a bachelor of forty-two years. A malicious covetous Devil wraths by us, but our dear Saint comes hastening down heaven to...

The Reverend Ernest Lindley, aged twenty-seven, was first vicar of Aldecross. On Sunday morning, the whole family went down the lane to church. Mr Lindley went down to Aldecross with a packet of...

She was too good for him, yet still she did not regret marrying him. They went to live in Scargill Street, and he showed her how to put a newspaper on the table for a cloth. The men were out...

A country girl drove in her dozen birds, disconsolate because she was so late, and stopped before the dismal prospect of one of the great warehouses that had been gutted with fire. Another girl...

A small locomotive engine came clanking, and the smoke from the engine sank and cleaved to the rough grass. A mother and son stood at the foot of the three steps, and the mother watched her son's...

Frances dropped down on the turf and Anne plumped down beside her. The country was intensely morning-still. Tom Smedley gave the young girl a wild rabbit, and took a servant from the rectory....

The mistress of the British School stepped down from her school gate and went to Berryman's, the baker's, where she asked the morose man with sandy whiskers for six pennies worth of assorted cakes...

The two girls took the farm together, but were left alone. March gave them their hot food at night, but from. One evening, March was walking slowly after Banford when she became aware that Banford...

Three people confusedly emerged from a tall, dark Georgian house, and a girl paused and watched a man in a bowler hat. A man in a bowler hat chased after a woman in a black shawl with fringe in the...

The Captain was a tall man of about forty, with reddish-brown, stiff hair, and a Prussian aristocrat. He grew madly irritable and harsh and cruelly bullying his young soldier, using contempt and...

Syson lifted the field-gate, jolted down a steep, saw somebody glance at him through the kitchen window, and heard men's voices. Syson went round the buildings and into the orchard at the back of...

There was a woman who started with all the advantages, yet had no luck, boney children and felt she must cover up some fault in herself. The children could hear the unspoken phrase, "I'm a lucky...