Lawrence's most famous novels are Sons and Lovers (19 13), Rainbow (19 15), Woman in Love (1920) and Lady Chatterley's Lover. The stories in these novels all take place in Nottinghamshire, the writer's hometown, a mining area with harsh natural conditions. Although Lawrence chose to leave his hometown in real life, he described the place where he was born and raised again and again in his novels.
Because Lawrence's creation basically belongs to the category of realism, the description of emotion and sex in the book is very straightforward and undisguised. This was rare in his time. Rainbow was once banned because of its lesbian plot, and a publisher claimed that "sons and lovers are the most obscene books I have ever read".
Lady Chatterley's Lover once caused a major obscene scandal in Britain. Because the description of sex in the book is too explicit (perhaps because the "lover" comes from the working class), the British court even filed a case for review in the name of "obscenity". However, Penguin Books, its publisher, finally won the lawsuit. The agency also published a series of works by Expressionism painting. These works have been destroyed for depicting hidden parts of the human body.
Although Lawrence was once called an erotic novelist, he was actually a very devout Christian. He believes that the rigid European Christianity has gradually lost its vitality and tried to transform it with primitive and tribal beliefs. This is one of the reasons why he started his "primitive pilgrimage". The ideological trend of "process philosophy" also inspired Lawrence's creation. For example, in Lawrence's autobiographical work Sons and Lovers, we can see the obvious shadow of Nietzsche and Freud's theory.