Happy Birthday D.H. Lawrence! “For him the novel was not the exposition of a thesis about people, but an adventure of the soul.” – Richard Aldington on D.H. Lawrence [caption id="attachment_34600" align="aligncenter" width="450"] D.H. Lawrence: a complete list of his works...

“Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Florence: Privately printed, 1928 Pirated edition, ca. 1930s PR6022 A93 L2 1928 In 1928, D.H. Lawrence privately printed his eleventh novel, Lady Chatterley’s...

“Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change…” — “Phoenix,”  D.H. Lawrence The Phoenix Woodstock, New York: Maverick Press xAP2 P556 Like the legendary phoenix, some books can be born again, rising...

Rare Books salutes The Great American Read by inviting you to visit the Special Collections Reading Room on level 4 of the J. Willard Marriott Library to hold first editions of some of the classics included on the 100 list....