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D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence Hardcover - 1991

by John Worthen


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D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider is an illuminating and clear-sighted portrait of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant, radical and misunderstood writers.John Worthen follows Lawrence's from his awkward and intense youth in Nottinghamshire, through his turbulent relationship with Frieda and the years of exile abroad to his premature death at the age of 44. His account is an intimate and absolutely compelling reappraisal of a man who believed himself to be an outsider, in angry revolt against his class, culture and country, and who was engaged in a furious commitment to his writing and a passionate struggle to live according to his beliefs.

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The first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence was originally published in 1991, and draws on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, many of them hitherto unpublished, to reveal a complex portrait of an extraordinary man. It describes his upbringing in a small colliery town in Nottinghamshire, his years spent as a teacher and his disastrous sexual experiments with Jessie Chambers, Helen Corke and Alice Dax, as well as providing a radical account of his early relationship with Frieda Weekley, Lawrence's 'woman of a life-time'. It ends with the completion of his great autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers. This volume has already established itself as the most complete and authoritative account available.

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Our first image of D. H. Lawrence comes from October 1885, a month after his birth in the small Midlands mining town of Eastwood.

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  • Title D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence
  • Author John Worthen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 656
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date June 28, 1991
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521254199 / 0521254191
  • Weight 2.7 lbs (1.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.34 x 1.94 in (24.08 x 16.10 x 4.93 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, English - 20th century - Biography, Lawrence, D. H - Childhood and youth
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90023423
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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