Twilight in Italy

by D. H. Lawrence, Jan Morris

Overview

An Unabridged Edition, To Include: The Crucifix across the Mountains - On The Lago Di Garda - The Spinner and the Monks - The Lemon Gardens - The Theatre - San Gaudenzio - The Dance - Il Duro - John - Italians in Exile - The Return Journey

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780769653
Publisher:	I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Publication date:	07/30/2015
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930), novelist, poet, playwright, painter, critic, is an icon of twentieth-century literature. He began writing at an early age, publishing his first novel, The White Peacock, when he was twenty-five, Sons and Lovers two years later and The Rainbow and Women in Love in his thirties. 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 Italy, Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon), Australia, Mexico and the south of France – 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.

Date of Birth:

September 11, 1885

Date of Death:

March 2, 1930

Place of Birth:

Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England

Place of Death:

Vence, France

Education:

Nottingham University College, teacher training certificate, 1908

Editorial Reviews

‘The sharpness of Lawrence’s eye is incredible [. . . ] brilliantly informative, educative, entertaining and moving.’

Anthony Burgess

‘It cannot be read as an ordinary travel book, for his voyage is philosophic, as well as a symbolic and sensuous one.’

Anais Nin

‘If this is travel writing, it is travel writing in excelsis – beyond the spectacle, beyond the experience, beyond even the interpretation, into profounder conclusions of the spirit.’

Jan Morris