Lady Chatterleys Villa (Haus Armchair Travellers) (Literary Travellers): D. H. Lawrence on the Italian Riviera - Hardcover

Richard Owen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1907973982 ISBN 13: 9781907973987

Publisher: Armchair Traveller, 2014

Synopsis

November 1925: in search of health and sun, DH Lawrence arrives on the Italian Riviera with his wife Frieda and is exhilarated by the view of the sparkling Mediterranean from his rented villa, set amid olives and vines. But over the next six months Frieda will be fatally attracted to their landlord, a dashing Italian army officer, and Lawrence will write two stories prefiguring Lady Chatterley s Lover: Sun and The Virgin and the Gypsy, both tales of women drawn to earthy, muscular men. Drawing for the first time on the unpublished letters and diaries of Rina Secker, the Anglo-Italian wife of Lawrence s publisher, Owen reconstructs the drama leading up to the creation of one of the most controversial novels of all time, and explores DH Lawrence s passion for all things Italian, tracking his path to the Riviera from Lake Garda to Lerici, Abruzzo, Capri, Sicily and Sardinia.

About this title

Review:

'Owen agrees with Anthony Burgess and Aldous Huxley that Lawrence served English literature and himself all the better for staying away from England. Gracefully, he [Owen] portrays the Riviera and warmth of Italian society in which Lawrence was slowly resurrected and enabled to write.' --The Times

'[Owen] reconstructs the drama leading to the creation of one of history's most controversial novels and explores DH Lawrence's passion for all things Italian.' --The Sunday Telegraph

'An engaging picture' --Literary Review

About the Author:

Richard Owen was the Rome correspondent of The Times for fifteen years, after stints in Moscow, Brussels, and Jerusalem.

About this edition

• Publisher: Armchair Traveller
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1907973982
• ISBN 13: 9781907973987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240