The Lost Girl (Modern Library) (Modern Library Classics): A Novel - Softcover

D.H. Lawrence; Lee Siegel (Introduction)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812969979 ISBN 13: 9780812969979

Publisher: Modern Library Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as The modern Library of the world s Best Books . Its paperbook series feature treasured classics, major translations of great works, and rediscoveries of keen literary and historical merit. Featuring introductions by leading writers, stunning translations, scholarly endnotes and reading group guides. Production values emphasize superior quality and readability. Competitive prices, coupled with exciting cover design make these an ideal gift to be cherished by the avid reader. The Lost Girl, D. H. Lawrence s forgotten novel, is a passionate tale of longing and sexual defiance, of devastation and destitution. Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father s business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter s proper upbringing, James Houghton buys a theater. Among the traveling performers he employs is Ciccio, a sensual Italian who immediately captures Alvina s attention. Fleeing with him to Naples, she leaves her safe world behind and enters one of sexual awakening, desire, and fleeting freedom.

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Review:

"[Lawrence was] a writer with an extraordinary sense of the physical world, of the colour and texture and shape of things, for whom the body was alive and the problems of the body insistent and important." --Virginia Woolf

"[Lawrence was] a writer with an extraordinary sense of the physical world, of the colour and texture and shape of things, for whom the body was alive and the problems of the body insistent and important." --Virginia Woolf

"[Lawrence was] a writer with an extraordinary sense of the physical world, of the colour and texture and shape of things, for whom the body was alive and the problems of the body insistent and important." --Virginia Woolf

Book Description:

This edition of The Lost Girl uses the manuscript which D. H. Lawrence wrote in Sicily in 1920 to recapture his direct relationship with the text and so for the first time, the novel is printed in a text corresponding to Lawrence's expectations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0812969979
• ISBN 13: 9780812969979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400