The Lost Girl
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
In the stifling confines of an English Midlands town, Alvina Houghton — a woman of quiet intelligence and restless desire — refuses to surrender to the dull fate society has mapped out for her, and in D. H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl, her defiant journey towards selfhood becomes one of the most arresting portraits of feminine rebellion in twentieth-century fiction. First published in 1920 and awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the novel chronicles Alvina's escape from provincial mediocrity through a series of increasingly unconventional choices, culminating in her passionate entanglement with Ciccio, a roving Italian performer, and her ultimate flight to the rugged landscapes of southern Italy. Lawrence brings to this narrative his characteristic ferocity of vision — a prose style that is at once lyrical and unsparing, dissecting the social codes of Edwardian England with surgical precision while insisting on the primacy of instinct over convention. The Lost Girl stands as a vital, if sometimes overlooked, chapter in Lawrence's broader argument that true vitality lies beyond the boundaries of respectable society. This Heron Books edition, introduced by Malcolm Elwin and illustrated by Anthony Colbert, presents the work in a handsome format worthy of its enduring literary stature — and leaves the reader asking whether Alvina's liberation is triumph, tragedy, or something altogether more ambiguous.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
In the stifling confines of an English Midlands town, Alvina Houghton — a woman of quiet intelligence and restless desire — refuses to surrender to the dull fate society has mapped out for her, and in D. H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl, her defiant journey towards selfhood becomes one of the most arresting portraits of feminine rebellion in twentieth-century fiction. First published in 1920 and awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the novel chronicles Alvina's escape from provincial mediocrity through a series of increasingly unconventional choices, culminating in her passionate entanglement with Ciccio, a roving Italian performer, and her ultimate flight to the rugged landscapes of southern Italy. Lawrence brings to this narrative his characteristic ferocity of vision — a prose style that is at once lyrical and unsparing, dissecting the social codes of Edwardian England with surgical precision while insisting on the primacy of instinct over convention. The Lost Girl stands as a vital, if sometimes overlooked, chapter in Lawrence's broader argument that true vitality lies beyond the boundaries of respectable society. This Heron Books edition, introduced by Malcolm Elwin and illustrated by Anthony Colbert, presents the work in a handsome format worthy of its enduring literary stature — and leaves the reader asking whether Alvina's liberation is triumph, tragedy, or something altogether more ambiguous.