Kangaroo

by D. H. Lawrence

Overview

Kangaroo is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1923. It is set in Australia. Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife Harriet in the early 1920s. This appears to be semi-autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, in 1922.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781981249671
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/29/2017
Pages:	398
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

D. H. Lawrence, born in England in 1885, is one of the key figures in literary modernism. Among his most notable novels are Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920) and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928). Kangaroo (1923) was published the year after Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, spent three months in Australia. Lawrence died in France in 1930.

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

Table of Contents

General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Kangaroo; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Appendix; A note on pounds, shillings and pence.

Editorial Reviews

. . . the most truthful and disturbing image one can find of Australia in literature.

New York Review of Books

"One of the sharpest fictional visions of the country [Australia] and its people".--Gideon Haigh

From the Publisher