Twilight in Italy

by D. H. Lawrence

Overview

"Twilight in Italy" is a small book of travel essays, worth reading both for their own sake and for the light they throw on the context of Lawrence’s work.

D. H. Lawrence was a prolific and versatile writer whose plays, poems, novels, novellas, and short stories—more than forty volumes produced in a writing life of twenty years—often need to be read in the context of his essays, pamphlets, and travel books. There are four of these last, excluding the passages of description in his letters recording his expatriation in Europe, America, and Australia. The first of these journeys is recorded in his first travel book, "Twilight in Italy".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788829587872
Publisher:	E-BOOKARAMA
Publication date:	12/27/2023
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	893,255
File size:	909 KB

About the Author

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), novelist, poet, playwright, painter, critic, is an icon of 20th century literature. 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 America, Italy, Austria, Mexico, the South of France and Sri Lanka - 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

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 Returban Jourbaney
9. The Returban Jourbaney

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