Mornings in Mexico (Penguin Travel Library) - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140095217 ISBN 13: 9780140095210

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

D H Lawrence's travels in Mexico

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Review

'If you read only one book of travellers' tales on Mexico, it must be this one. A magnificent blood-and-ganglion pagan response to the primeval savagery south of the Rio Grande.' --Frank McLynn, Top Ten Books, Guardian

'He wrote something like three dozen books, of which even the worst page dances with life that could be mistaken for no other man's, while the best are admitted, even by those who hate him, to be unsurpassed.' --Catherine Carswell, Time and Tide

'He is an extraordinarily acute noticer of the world, human and natural. And it is not just the natural world that beckons Lawrence to flood it with beautiful language... he can be as precise and compact an observer of human interaction as Flaubert or Forster.' --James Wood, Guardian

About the Author

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), novelist, poet, playwright, painter, critic, is 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 three years later and The Rainbow and Women in Love in his thirties. 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 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 imaginative novelist of our generation', and friends such as Aldous Huxley, Lawrence's obituarists were mostly 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140095217
• ISBN 13: 9780140095210
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 91