Aaron's rod - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1514226391 ISBN 13: 9781514226391

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Aaron's Rod is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1922. The protagonist of this picaresque novel, Aaron Sisson, is a union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, trapped in a stale marriage. He is also an amateur, but talented, flautist. His dream is to become recognized as a professional musician. Many incidents in the novel have direct parallels with events in Lawrence's own life.

About this title

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.

From the Back Cover:

Abandoning his wife and children, Aaron Sisson leaves the mining community in pursuit of the 'life single': individual freedom, personal friendship, the 'male power' of passion and art. Playing the flute to pay his way he travels to post-war London, where he mixes with the modern Bohemian set and finds male friendship in Rawdon Lilly. Further travels take him to Milan and Florence ('a town of men') preoccupied with thoughts on the decline of humanity from the Renaissance to the modern age. For Aaron, in his own way, is striving to save civilization. Aaron's Rod was completed in 1921 but was then censored by Lawrence's publishers. This edition of the novel, based on the only authoritative surviving typescript, restores these cut passages and eliminates the errors of previous editions.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1514226391
• ISBN 13: 9781514226391
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 370