Lady Chatterley's Lover (75th Anniversary)

by Lawrence, D. H.; Dyer, Geoff

• ISBN13: 9780451528889
• ISBN10: 0451528883
• Edition: 75th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

The great philosopheras final writings on the real and the ideal In "Timaeus and Critias," Plato presents his ultimate view on the composition of the universe. Taking the form of dialogues among Socrates, Timaeus, Critias, and Hermocrates, these two works explore the origins of the universe, life, and humanity, and have remained a paradigm of science for two thousand years. Desmond Leeas translation preserves the lucidity of the original, and his appendix on Atlantis is an invaluable source of information on this perennial myth. "Timaeus and Critias" is an essential text for students of philosophy and classics as well as literature and mythology.

Author Biography

The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.