D. H. Lawrence and Italy book cover
Classic Italian Countryside Portrait

D. H. Lawrence and Italy

by D.H. Lawrence, Anthony Burgess, Tim Parks

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Paperback ISBN: 9780141441559 22 Feb 2007 196 x 129 x 23 (mm) 364g

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In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.

Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. In Sea and Sardinia, Lawrence brings to life the vigorous spontaneity of a society as yet untouched by the deadening effect of industrialization.

Etruscan Places is a beautiful and delicate work of literary art, the record of "a dying man drinking from the founts of a civilization dedicated to life."