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by: John Worthen See Larger Image List Price: $18.00 Amazon.com's Price: $14.58 You Save: $3.42 (19%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 809 EAN: 9781582433554 ISBN: 1582433550 Label: Counterpoint Manufacturer: Counterpoint Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 560 Publication Date: February 20, 2007 Publisher: Counterpoint Sales Rank: 802950 Studio: Counterpoint Related Items: Lady Chatterley's Lover: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Classics) The Works of D. H. Lawrence Women in Love / Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Classics) The Rainbow (Oxford World's Classics) D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: This seductive and engaging biography uncomfortable in his own skin. Lawrence's fascination with the body and his determination to articulate its every experience brought about his notorious reputation, and ultimately, his literary redemption. What emerges in John Worthen's portrait is an intimate and absolutely compelling study of an individual in angry revolt against his class, culture, and country--a man passionately struggling to live in accordance with his beliefs. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - David Herbert Lawrence: A coalminer's son who became a famous author of literary classics David Herbert Lawrence was born to a miner in the coalmining community of Eastwood located eight miles from Nottingham. The village is located in the middle of what was once Sherwood Forrest deep in the English Midlands. When Lawrence was born the area was an ugly coalmining region. His mother Lydia made the sickly, thin, bookish boy her favorite. His father Arthur was a near-illiterate spending time in the pub. The family had several children who went on to live routine lives. Only the genius ... Read More Rating: - Portrait of the artist as a courageous invalid In reading D. H. Lawrence's SONS AND LOVERS I was struck by how much it cut to the core, and was curious as to how closely autobiographical the story was. That led me to an an excellent excerpt from this book that is available on the Web, that tells about Lawrence's nostalgia for his youth when he spent so much time at the Haggs farm (Leivers farm in SONS AND LOVERS). That excerpt as well as other material told me that Lawrence's fiction about this youthful part of his life was very thinly disguised. ... Read More Rating: - The best one- volume biography Benjamin Kunkel reviews this work very favorably in 'The New Yorker'. It is he maintains the best one- volume biography of Lawrence that has as yet been written. In the key passage of his review Kunkel cites a letter of Lawrence as containing the heart of his perception of life. His commentary then follows: "The real way of living is to answer to one's wants. Not "I want to light up with my intelligence as many things as possible" but "For the living of my full flame-I want that liberty, ... Read More

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