Kangaroo (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) - Softcover

D. H. Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140189726 ISBN 13: 9780140189728

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

Richard and Harriet Somers flee to Australia to escape the decay of post-war Europe. A disillusioned writer, Richard seeks community in a group and finds himself both attracted and repelled by its enigmatic leader Kangaroo. THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS calls D.H. Lawrence's classic" . . . the most truthful and disturbing image one can find of Australia in literature".

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About the Author

The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140189726
• ISBN 13: 9780140189728
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Bruce Steele