St Mawr

By D H Lawrence

A red-gold stallion exposes the lifelessness beneath fashionable society. When Lou Witt encounters St. Mawr, his dangerous vitality sharpens her dissatisfaction with marriage, intimacy and the regulated world around her. Powerful yet resistant to human control, the horse becomes the unsettling presence around which this psychological novel tests the boundaries between possession and independence, attraction and fear, civilisation and wildness. Lou's marriage to the Englishman Rico belongs to a social order shaped by class, convention and competing performances of masculinity. Against its strained relationships and emotional frustration, St. Mawr embodies an animal force that cannot be made to conform. The contrast is neither comfortable nor sentimental: human attempts to ride, train and master him raise searching questions about domination, while Lou's growing alienation draws her towards forms of existence beyond the expectations of fashionable life. The movement from England's cultivated social world to the American West opens a wider landscape for Lou's search, replacing regulated surroundings with rural beauty, danger and solitude. Human-animal relations remain central, but the novel also probes what independence may demand from a woman dissatisfied with conventional marriage and wary of the deadening compromises around her. Its tension lies in the pull between connection and withdrawal, social belonging and a more solitary life rooted in nature. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9377784433
• ISBN13: 9789377784430
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"