Kangaroo

by D. H. Lawrence

Overview

Kangaroo is a semi-autobiographical novel by D. H. Lawrence. It follows a British writer on his visit to New South Wales. In it there are vivid descriptions of the Australian countryside and a powerful glimpse into a wartime Cornwall. Lawrence delves deeply into his thoughts on relationship, power and the people of Australia. Perhaps Lawrence’s finest, if not most accessible, novel.

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515439998
Publisher:	Wilder Publications
Publication date:	01/14/2019
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(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

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

From the Publisher

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

New York Review of Books