Robert Darroch (49 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Horrible Paws: D.H. Lawrence's Australian Nightmare. Book.

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First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xiii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; Authors, English 20th century. Biography. Fiction in English. Travel Australia. Literature. Novelists. 1 Kg. …

Softcover. Condition: VG. Some rubbing & edgewear; overall clean & tight. 85 pages.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Kangaroo. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 130 pages. Illustrated, tear 3 cm. at lower front dust jacket. Weight 0.49 kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xiii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; Authors, English 20th century. Biography. Fiction in English. Travel Australia. Literature. Novelists. 1 Kg. …

Softcover. Condition: VG. Some rubbing & edgewear; small corner creases; overall clean & tight. 125 pages.

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xiv+130pp. 8vo. Original boards in slightly faded dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations; portrait frontis. A very good copy. First edition.

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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 130pp; illustrations; 235 x 155mm.

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Hardback. Robert Darroch, Melbourne, Macmillan. Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis insightful literary study chronicles the influential period D.H. Lawrence spent in Australia, a time that profoundly shaped his later works. Robert Darroch uncovers the specific experiences and observations that inspired Kangaroo, providing a vivid portrait of the author's engagement with the continent. The narrative presents a detailed analysis of Lawrence's perceptions of Australian society and landscape, illustrating how these elements permeated his creative output. It argues for the significant, often overlooked, impact of his Australian sojourn on his philosophical and artistic development. Readers gain a deeper understanding of both the iconic writer and the unique cultural context that informed a crucial chapter of his life. Hardback.…

HB CREAM BOARDS FINE PP130 DW FINE 8VO The English writerÕs period in Australia.

HB CREAM CLOTH FINE PP130 DW FINE 8V0 About LawrenceÕs visit and time here in 1922.

First Edition, 8vo.pp.xiiii + 130. illustrated in black & white,index. Very Good hardcover in Very Good dustwrapper.loosely inserted a gift card from the author. Lawrence wrote two books during his brief stay in Australia.He wrote Kangaroo in NSW between June and July 1922.,dismissed as unreal and a figment of the authors imagination is in fact a unique glimpse at a half forgotten period of violence and hatred in Australia , a period when secret facist armies were formed to fight socialis and communism.Lawrence came across one of these sinister organisations during his stay.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In Australia in 1922, novelist DH Lawrence had a number of nightmares that were to haunt his novel, Kangaroo, which he started writing in the coastal village of Thirroul in May, and completed in Taos in America four months later. The most famous one provided a chapter ('The Nightmare') in his Australian novel, touched off by a scarifying encounter with the leader of the secret army Lawrence ran across in Sydney. 'It was as if the silvery freedom suddenly turned, and showed the scaly back of a reptile, and the horrible paws', he wrote. Those blood-caked paws were not only the metaphorical extremities of the sinister organisation he had stumbled on in Australia, but the unwelcome attentions of its 'bear-like' secret army leader, portrayed in the novel as Benjamin Cooley. For, hidden in the text of Kangaroo, Robert Darroch has discovered a hitherto unrecognised homoerotic encounter that, paradoxically, gives the lie to accusations of homosexual tendencies in probably the 20th-century's most misunderstood author.…

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 130pp. (sl.foxing to top edge). b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. In 1922 the English author, D. H. Lawrence visited Australia on his way to America. Whilst staying in Thiroul, NSW he wrote his novel Kangaroo between June & July, unearthing a secret political truth.