The Lost Girl - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144371674X ISBN 13: 9781443716741

Publisher: Barton Press, 2008

Synopsis

This antiquarian book contains D. H. Lawrence’s 1920 novel, "The Lost Girl". It tells the story of Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a draper who comes of age as her father’s business begins to fail. Her father, in a desperate attempt to regain his wealth and ensure his daughter’s correct upbringing, purchases a theatre. Alvina, however, becomes infatuated with a travelling Italian performer called Ciccio, and the two of them flee to Naples to embrace a new life that brings with it freedom, desire, and Avlina’s sexual awakening. David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885 - 1930) was a seminal English novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist - one of the greats of English literature. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

About this title

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

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: Barton Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 144371674X
• ISBN 13: 9781443716741
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 548