{"product_id":"2026100012389-secondhand-the-plumed-serpent","title":"The Plumed Serpent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew novels in the English literary canon are as audacious and unsettling as D.H. Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent, a work that plunges its Irish protagonist, Kate Leslie, into the heart of post-revolutionary Mexico, where she becomes entangled in a dangerous, mystical movement seeking to resurrect the ancient Aztec gods, Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli. The novel chronicles Kate's psychological and spiritual transformation as she is drawn to the movement's charismatic leaders — the general Don Cipriano and the visionary Don Ramón — and must decide whether to surrender herself to their overwhelming, primal vision of a new world order, or flee back to the rationalism of European civilization.\n\nThe Plumed Serpent stands as one of Lawrence's most ambitious and controversial achievements, presenting his most sustained meditation on power, sexuality, and the conflict between the modern, individualistic self and the pull of collective, mythic identity. Written with the hypnotic, incantatory prose that defines Lawrence at his most intense, the novel argues that industrial modernity has severed humanity from its vital, sacred roots. Critics have long debated its complex politics and its unflinching portrayal of male power, making it a text that continues to provoke and disturb — a fever-dream of a novel that refuses to release its grip long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51070625808603,"sku":"2026100012389-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/03095c73-052c-40ff-843b-108798515d0f.png?v=1794188257","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012389-secondhand-the-plumed-serpent","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}