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Informationen zum Autor D.H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottingham in 1895, to a father who was a miner and a mother who was a home-based lace-worker. After beginnings as a teacher, Lawrence's work was taken up by Ford Madox Ford and others, and he made a significant mark as a novelist and as a writer of short stories. Often steeped in controversy because of his frank treatment of sexuality, but also because of his elopement with another man's wife-a German national-just before World War 1, Lawrence eventually was to spend many years in voluntary exile in continental Europe, and then in Mexico and the U.S.A. Famous in the wider world for novels such as Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and the scandal-struck Lady Chatterley's Lover, he wrote over 800 poems, and several collections of short stories and volumes of essays. He was also an accomplished painter. Lawrence died of tuberculosis in Vence, in the south of France, in 1930. Klappentext The first critical edition of D. H. Lawrence's 1912 16 essays. Zusammenfassung The first critical edition of D. H. Lawrence's 1912–16 essays. Lawrence left England for the first time in May 1912, and began to record his reactions to foreign cultures. In 1915 he amplified some of these essays and wrote others for Twilight in Italy (1916), his first travel book. Inhaltsverzeichnis General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Twilight in Italy and Other Essays; Essays of Germany and Tyrol; Italian Essays, 1913 and 'With the Guns' 1914; Twilight in Italy [Italian days]; Appendixes; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; A note on currencies.
