Aaron's Rod - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067000085X ISBN 13: 9780670000852

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 1961

Synopsis

A coal miner forsakes his family in search of self-fulfillment and discovers the unconventional world of bohemia

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Book Description

Written in the years following the First World War, Aaron's Rod questions many of the accepted social and political institutions of Lawrence's generation. The Cambridge edition of the novel, based on the only authoritative surviving typescript, restores these cut passages and eliminates the errors and house-styling of previous editions.

About the Author

David Herbert Richards "D. H." Lawrence (1885 - 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile which he called his "savage pilgrimage". At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as, "The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 1961
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067000085X
• ISBN 13: 9780670000852
• Binding: Paperback