Mornings in Mexico and Etruscan Places [antikvár]

PENGUIN BOOKSMORNINGS IN MEXICOANDETRUSCAN PLACESDávid Herbert Lawrence was born at Eastwood, Nottingham-shire, in 1885, fourth of the fi ve children of a minerandhis middle-class wife. He attended Nottingham High School and Nottingham University College. His first növel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, just a few weeks after the death of his mother to whom he had been abnormally close. At this time he finally ended his relationship with Jessie Chambers (the Miriam of Sons and Lovers) and became engaged to Louie Burrows. His career as a school teacher was ended in 1911 by the illness which was ultimately diagnosed as tuberculosis.In 1912 Lawrence eloped to Germany with Frieda Weekley, the Germán wife of his former modern languages tutor. They were married on their return to England in 1914. Lawrence was now living, precariously, by his writing. His greatest novels, The Rainbow and Women in Lőve, were completed in 1915 and 1916. The former was suppressed, and he could not íind a publisher for the latter,After the war Lawrence began his 'savage pilgrimage' in search of a more fulfilling mode of life than industrial Western civilization could offer. This took him to Sicily, Ceylon, Australia and, finally, New Mexico. The Lawrences returned to Europe in 1925. Lawrence's last növel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was banned in 1928, and his paintings confiscated in 1929. He died in Vence in 1930 at the age of 44.Lawrence spent most of his short life living. Nevertheless he produced an amazing quantity of work - novels^ stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, translations and letters . . . After his death Frieda wrote: 'What he had seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of living, the hope of more and more life . . a heroic and immeasurable gift/