The White Peacock

Nethermere, and the Choices of Lettie

D. H. Lawrence

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501635630
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Two families on a Nottinghamshire farm: a girl who marries the rich man instead of the farmer's son who loves her, a gamekeeper who has turned his back on civilisation, and a valley that is being sold under all of them. Lawrence published his first novel at twenty-five after rewriting it four times, and set it in the country he had walked as a boy. Everything he did later is here in solution, including the argument about class that he never dropped. Fifty-three plates of field and farm by painters including Constable and Clausen carry the novel's own landscape across two centuries of English painting.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Part I. Chapter I The People of Nethermere
• Chapter II. Dangling the Apple
• Chapter III. A Vendor of Visions
• Chapter IV. The Father
• Chapter V. The Scent of Blood
• Chapter VI. The Education of George
• Chapter VII. Lettie Pulls Down the Small Gold Grapes
• Chapter VIII. The Riot of Christmas
• Chapter IX. Lettie Comes of Age
• Part II. Chapter I Strange Blossoms and Strange New Budding
• Chapter II. A Shadow in Spring
• Chapter III. The Irony of Inspired Moments
• Chapter IV. Kiss When She’s Ripe for Tears
• Chapter V. An Arrow from the Impatient God
• Chapter VI. The Courting
• Chapter VII. The Fascination of the Forbidden Apple
• Chapter VIII. A Poem of Friendship
• Chapter IX. Pastorals and Peonies
• Part III. Chapter I A New Start in Life
• Chapter II. Puffs of Wind in the Sail
• Chapter III. The First Pages of Several Romances
• Chapter IV. Domestic Life at the Ram
• Chapter V. The Dominant Motif of Suffering
• Chapter VI. Pisgah
• Chapter VII. Nethermthe Scarp Slopeere
• Chapter VIII. A Prospect Among the Marshes of Lethe
• About the Author