Twilight in Italy

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Twilight in Italy

Autobiography: writers Memoirs Literary essays Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers European history Social and cultural history Classic travel writing

Author: D.H. Lawrence

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Language: English

Published by: I.B. Tauris

Published on: 30th May 2015

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 192 pages

ISBN: 9780857739896


In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence left England for the first time and travelled 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. This is a travel book unlike any other, where landscapes and people are backdrops to Lawrence's deeper wanderings - into philosophy, opinion, life, nature, religion and the fate of man.

With sensuous descriptions of late harvests, darkening days and fragile ancient traditions, Twilight in Italy is suffused with nostalgia and premonition. For, looming over the idyll of rural Italy hover dark spectres: the arrival of the industrial age and the brewing storm of World War I, upheavals that would change the face of Europe forever.

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