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Life with a capital L / D. H. Lawrence ; essays chosen and introduced by Geoff Dyer.

Van Pelt Library PR6023.A93 A6 2019b
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930, author.
Contributor:
Dyer, Geoff, writer of introduction.
Series:
Penguin modern classics
Penguin modern classics.
Standardized Title:
Essays. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
Lawrence, D. H.
English essays--20th century.
English essays.
Genre:
Essays.
Physical Description:
xvii, 491 pages ; 18 cm.
Place of Publication:
London : Penguin Books, 2019.
Summary:
For D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, 'the one bright book of life', yet his non-fiction shows him at his most freewheeling and playful. This is a selection of his brilliantly varied essays, on subjects including art, morality, obscenity, songbirds, Italy, Thomas Hardy, the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains and the narcissism of photographing ourselves. Arranged chronologically to illuminate the patterns of Lawrence's thought over time, and including many little-known pieces, they reveal a writer of enduring freshness and force.
Contents:
Christs in the Tirol (1912)
Review of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1913)
From Study of Thomas Hardy (1914)
Whistling of birds (1917)
Poetry of the present (1919)
Memoir of Maurice Magnus (1921-2)
Indians and an Englishman (1922)
Taos (1922)
The future of the novel (1922-3)
Paris letter (1924)
A letter from Germany (1924)
Pan in America (1924)
The bad side of books : introduction to A Bibliography of the Writings of D. H. Lawrence (1924)
On coming home (1924-5)
Art and morality (1925)
Morality and the novel (1925)
The novel (1925)
Why the novel matters (1925)
The novel and the feelings (1925)
Reflections of the Death of a Porcupine (1925)
Man is a hunter (1926)
Return to Bestwood (1926)
Review of In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (1927)
Flowery Tuscany (1927)
Germans and Latins (1927)
Introduction to Mastro-don Gesualdo by Giovanning Verga (1927)
Why I don't like living in London (1928)
Hymns in a man's life (1928)
Give her a pattern (1928)
New Mexico (1928)
Myself revealed (1928)
Introduction to these paintings (1928-9)
Pornography and obscenity (1929)
The risen lord (1929)
Nottingham and the mining countryside (1929)
Introduction to The Grand Inquisitor by F. M. Dostoievsky (1930)
'Elegy' by Rebecca West (1930).
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780241344606
0241344603
OCLC:
1091036454

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