Twilight in Italy: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140189947 ISBN 13: 9780140189940

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1997

Synopsis

In 1912, D.H. Lawrence left England for the first time, touring Germany, the Alps, and Italy. This classic, his first travel book, records Lawrence's philosophic responses to his experiences. A powerful underlying theme uniting these essays is the threat of approaching war, and Lawrence's eerily prophetic article, "With the Guns", is also included.

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Book Description

The first critical edition of D. H. Lawrence's 1912-16 essays. Lawrence left England for the first time in May 1912, and began to record his reactions to foreign cultures. In 1915 he amplified some of these essays and wrote others for Twilight in Italy (1916), his first travel book.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140189947
• ISBN 13: 9780140189940
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Michelucci Stefania