D.H. Lawrence
the life of an outsider
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Word Count
129,500 words, Guess
Page Count
518 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedhlawrencelifeof00wort
- Internet Archivedhlawrencelifeof0000wort
- ISBN-101582433410
- ISBN-139781582433417
- OCLC Control Number62246522
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781582433417
- Open LibraryOL24745929M
Classifications
- DDC823/.912
- DDCB
- LCCPR6023.A93 Z9574 2005b
and 1 more
- LCCPR6019.O9
Description
This new biography by respected Lawrence scholar Worthen considers the writer's life and career in the context of what Worthen convincingly shows to have been a lifelong, instinctive rebellion against his family, his culture, his country and the enigmas of his own body. In developing his thesis, Worthen provides perceptive links between the people in Lawrence's life and his fictional characters. A stylishly written, smoothly developed analysis of Lawrence's conflicted psyche illuminates his love-hate relationship with his mother, his early platonic and romantic attachments, his interaction with the writers, artists and thinkers of his generation, and his grand passion for Frieda von Richthofen Weekley, the sexually uninhibited German aristocrat who left her English husband and three children to join Lawrence in a tempestuous, sometimes unfaithful union. Their peripatetic, often penurious life together unreels with sustained suspense as Lawrence's quest for the most salubrious place to unleash his creative imagination and, after his tuberculosis was diagnosed, to preserve his health ...
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