Twilight in Italy

Twilight in Italy

In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence traveled to northern Italy. He spent nearly a year on the shores of Lake Garda, lodged in elegantly decaying houses set amid lemon groves and surrounded by the fading life of traditional Italy. It was here that he wrote Sons and Lovers and here too that we see the early flowering of the prose that would come to define Lawrenceâ€™s oeuvre. This is a travel book unlike any other, where landscapes and people are backdrops to Lawrenceâ€™s deeper wanderingsâ€“into philosophy, life, nature, religion and the fate of man. With sensuous descriptions of late harvests, darkening days and the fragility of ancient traditions, Twilight in Italy is suffused with nostalgia and premonition. For, looming over the idyll of rural Italy are the arrival of the industrial age and the brewing storm of World War I; upheavals that would change the face of Europe forever.
Country USA
Brand Bloomsbury
Manufacturer I.B. Tauris
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781780769653
ReleaseDate 2015-07-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781780769653

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