Twilight in Italy

Name: Twilight in Italy
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781780769653
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★★★★★

English

By (author): D. H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence's first travel book and an important insight into the roots of his literary genius. In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence left England for the first time and travelled to northern Italy. He spent nearly a year on the shores of Lake Garda, lodged in elegantly decaying houses set amid lemon groves and surrounded by the fading life of traditional Italy. This is a travel book unlike any other, where landscapes and people are backdrops to Lawrence's deeper wanderings - into philosophy, opinion, life, nature, religion and the fate of man. With sensuous descriptions of late harvests, darkening days and fragile ancient traditions, Twilight in Italy is suffused with nostalgia and premonition. For, looming over the idyll of rural Italy hover dark spectres: the arrival of the industrial age and the brewing storm of World War I, upheavals that would change the face of Europe forever. See more

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Weight: 160g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 19 May 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781780769653

About D. H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) novelist poet playwright painter critic is an icon of 20th century literature. His hatred of militarism openly expressed during the First World War sparked a wave of vilification that forced him to leave England and embark on what he called his 'Savage Pilgrimage'. He spent the remainder of his life travelling - to America Italy Austria Mexico the South of France and Sri Lanka - and it was during this time that he wrote such classics as Sea and Sardinia The Plumed Serpent and Lady Chatterley's Lover. With the exception of E.M. Forster who called him 'the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation' and friends such as Aldous Huxley Lawrence's obituarists were dismissive and hostile. It was not until The Lady Chatterley trial thirty years after his death and the subsequent publication of the book that Lawrence was finally recognised as one of the great writers and thinkers of his age.