England, My England and Other Stories — Девід Лоуренс

“England, My England” — a collection of stories by one of the leading British writers David Herbert Lawrence (1885—1930). The author’s world views were essentially influenced by the events of the First World war which he condemned as a manifestation of the extreme insanity, trying in his works to propound the recipe of salvation. In particular, the writer reckoned that a man should defer to his own inner desires and feelings and saw the solution in setting free instinctive energy. Just because of it, all the stories of the collection are about love, initial, sensual and passionate; about relations in which “he” and “she” are eager to implement the potential laid up in a man by nature. Women who strive for possessing men inseparably, and men who cannot resist their instincts — such are the heroes who appear before us in the collection “England, My England” by David Herbert Lawrence. And what apart from love, feelings, and inner desires which remind a man about his inseparability from nature, can save old England as well as the whole world which came across with multitude of problems at the beginning of the XX century? To the writer's judgement, the only permanent value on this planet are the harmonious relations between the lovers which are grounded on mutual acknowledgment of the person's inner freedom.