Kangaroo

by D. H. Lawrence

Overview

Written in 1922, the novel Kangaroo depicts Australia in a vivid and sympathetic manner, while fusing lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of political ideas at an intensely personal level. The text is based on a collation of the manuscript, typescripts and first editions, as recorded in the apparatus. The Introduction gives background of composition and publication and a summary of contemporary reviews. Explanatory notes, with a geographical appendix, elucidate the local, political and literary allusions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788726615814
Publisher:	Saga Egmont International
Publication date:	11/02/2021
Sold by:	De Marque
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	578 KB

About the Author

D. H. Lawrence, born in England in 1885, is one of the key figures in literary modernism. Among his most notable novels are Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920) and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928). Kangaroo (1923) was published the year after Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, spent three months in Australia. Lawrence died in France in 1930.

Date of Birth:

September 11, 1885

Date of Death:

March 2, 1930

Place of Birth:

Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England

Place of Death:

Vence, France

Education:

Nottingham University College, teacher training certificate, 1908

Table of Contents

General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Kangaroo; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Appendix; A note on pounds, shillings and pence.

Editorial Reviews

. . . the most truthful and disturbing image one can find of Australia in literature.

New York Review of Books

"One of the sharpest fictional visions of the country [Australia] and its people".--Gideon Haigh

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