Twilight in Italy

by D. H. Lawrence

Overview

D. H. Lawrence, in full David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930), was an English author of novels, poems, plays, short stories, essays and travel books. He is valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism, as well as one of the finest writers in English literature. His novels "Sons and Lovers" (1913), "The Rainbow" (1915), and "Women in Love" (1920) made him one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. Much is said of Lawrence's fiction, but many have forgotten about his remarkable travel writing. "Twilight in Italy" is a small book of travel essays, worth reading for the light they throw on the context of Lawrence's work. The novel takes us on a foot tour of the Alps all the way down into the Verdant Gardens and the sun-soaked plazas of Italy. Lawrence gives us small stories here and there that not only share a sense of place, but also relate the experience of a real traveler.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412186834
Publisher:	eBooksLib
Publication date:	04/21/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	222 KB

About the Author

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was a novelist, poet, playwright, painter, critic and an icon of 20th-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, stirred 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 traveling - to Italy, Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon), Australia, America, 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 novelist of our generation', and friends such as Aldous Huxley, Lawrence's obituarists were mostly dismissive or 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 greatest 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

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Crucifix across the Mountains

Part I On the Lago Di Garda
1.The Spinner and the Monks
2. The Lemon Gardens
3. The Theatre
4. San Gaudenzio
5. The Dance
6. Il Duro
7. John

Part II Italians in Exile
8. Italians in Exile

Part III The Return Journey
9. The Return Journey

Editorial Reviews

"If this is travel writing, it is travel writing in excelsis - beyond the spectacle, beyond the experience, beyond even the interpretation, into profound conclusions of the spirit," —Jan Morris

"It cannot be read as an ordinary travel book, for his voyage is philosophic, as well as a symbolic and sensuous one." —Anais Nin

"The sharpness of Lawrence's eye is incredible...brilliantly informative, educative, entertaining and moving." —Anthony Burgess

From the Publisher

‘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