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Synopsis
Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers, and his German wife Harriet, in the early 1920s. This appears to be semi-autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, in 1922. The novel includes a chapter ("Nightmare") describing the Somers' experiences in wartime Cornwall (St Columb Major), vivid descriptions of the Australian landscape, and Richard Somers' sceptical reflections on fringe politics in Sydney. Australian journalist Robert Darroch — in several articles in the late 1970s, and a 1981 book entitled D.H. Lawrence in Australia — claimed that Lawrence based Kangaroo on real people and events he witnessed in Australia. The extent to which this is true remains a matter of controversy - particularly by Joseph Davis in his 1989 "D.H. Lawrence at Thirroul"(Collins, Sydney). Davis is sympathetic to the view that "Kangaroo" may be based on real events but argues that it is impossible that Lawrence had time to meet clandestine political leaders in Sydney when he was too busy writing his novel in Thirroul. Davis feels it is more likely to have been a local south coast identity associated with Thirroul who would have provided some of the details of Lawrence's political plot
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"Presented in high editorial style." Frank Kermode, London Review of Books
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A critical edition of Kangaroo, D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia.
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Kangaroo is D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia. He wrote the first draft in just forty-five days while living south of Sydney, in 1922, and revised it three months later in New Mexico. The descriptions of the country are vivid and sympathetic and the book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of political ideas at an immensely personal level. Based on a collation of the manuscript, typescripts and first editions, this text of Kangaroo is closest to what Lawrence would have expected to see in print. There is a full textual apparatus of variants, a comprehensive introduction giving the background and history of composition and publication and a summary of contemporary reviewers' opinions. Explanatory notes elucidate the many geographical, political and literary allusions in the text; there are three maps and an appendix detailing Australian locations. Seller Inventory # CIN0140098925A
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Kangaroo is D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia. He wrote the first draft in just forty-five days while living south of Sydney, in 1922, and revised it three months later in New Mexico. The descriptions of the country are vivid and sympathetic and the book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of political ideas at an immensely personal level. Based on a collation of the manuscript, typescripts and first editions, this text of Kangaroo is closest to what Lawrence would have expected to see in print. There is a full textual apparatus of variants, a comprehensive introduction giving the background and history of composition and publication and a summary of contemporary reviewers' opinions. Explanatory notes elucidate the many geographical, political and literary allusions in the text; there are three maps and an appendix detailing Australian locations. Seller Inventory # CIN0140098925A
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14th edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 394 p. ; 20 cm. Notes; First published in 1923. Subjects; Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ; Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 Australia ; Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 New Zealand ; Fiction. New Zealanders Foreign countries ; Fiction. Australians Foreign countries ; Fiction. Fiction in English. English fiction. Fiction in English, 1900-1945 Texts. British Australia ; Fiction. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 415117
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14th edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 394 p. ; 20 cm. Notes; First published in 1923. Subjects; Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ; Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 Australia ; Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 New Zealand ; Fiction. New Zealanders Foreign countries ; Fiction. Australians Foreign countries ; Fiction. Fiction in English. English fiction. Fiction in English, 1900-1945 Texts. British Australia ; Fiction. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 415117