The Trespasser
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Passion, consequence, and moral reckoning collide in D.H. Lawrence's second novel, The Trespasser, a searingly intimate portrait of a man torn between domestic duty and the consuming fire of illicit desire. Siegmund MacNair, a London musician, abandons his family for a brief, ecstatic holiday on the Isle of Wight with his young student Helena — an idyll of such intensity that its aftermath proves impossible to survive. Lawrence chronicles the lovers' retreat into sensory rapture with an almost musical lyricism, rendering the sea, the sun, and the body itself as forces of elemental power. Beneath its surface as a passionate romance, The Trespasser stands as a profound meditation on the incompatibility of transcendent experience with the mundane obligations of Edwardian life. Lawrence's prose burns with a characteristic urgency — sensuous, restless, and uncompromising — as it dissects the psychological devastation wrought by beauty itself. This Cambridge Edition presents the definitive text, restored with scholarly precision, giving new authority to a novel that anticipates the bold thematic territory Lawrence would later master in Sons and Lovers and Women in Love. For those who believe they know Lawrence, The Trespasser presents a revelation.
Author: D.H. Lawrence
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Cambridge University Press
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Passion, consequence, and moral reckoning collide in D.H. Lawrence's second novel, The Trespasser, a searingly intimate portrait of a man torn between domestic duty and the consuming fire of illicit desire. Siegmund MacNair, a London musician, abandons his family for a brief, ecstatic holiday on the Isle of Wight with his young student Helena — an idyll of such intensity that its aftermath proves impossible to survive. Lawrence chronicles the lovers' retreat into sensory rapture with an almost musical lyricism, rendering the sea, the sun, and the body itself as forces of elemental power. Beneath its surface as a passionate romance, The Trespasser stands as a profound meditation on the incompatibility of transcendent experience with the mundane obligations of Edwardian life. Lawrence's prose burns with a characteristic urgency — sensuous, restless, and uncompromising — as it dissects the psychological devastation wrought by beauty itself. This Cambridge Edition presents the definitive text, restored with scholarly precision, giving new authority to a novel that anticipates the bold thematic territory Lawrence would later master in Sons and Lovers and Women in Love. For those who believe they know Lawrence, The Trespasser presents a revelation.