Portrait Of A Genius, But . . .: The Life Of D. H. Lawrence, 1885 To 1930
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Few literary lives burn as brightly — or as controversially — as that of D. H. Lawrence, and Richard Aldington's Portrait of a Genius, but... chronicles the turbulent arc of Lawrence's existence from his coal-mining roots in Nottinghamshire in 1885 to his death in 1930 with unflinching candour. Drawing on intimate personal acquaintance with his subject, Aldington presents a vivid and unsparing account of the novelist, poet, and provocateur whose works — from Sons and Lovers to Lady Chatterley's Lover — ignited fierce debate about censorship, sexuality, and the human condition in the modern age. Aldington writes with the authority of both a literary contemporary and a seasoned biographer, weaving Lawrence's restless travels across Europe, Australia, and New Mexico into a portrait of an artist perpetually at war with the world and himself. The biography is at once a celebration and a reckoning — acknowledging Lawrence's towering genius while refusing to excuse the prickliness, the prejudices, and the painful contradictions that defined him. For anyone who has ever been gripped by Lawrence's incandescent prose and wondered at the man behind it, Aldington's account offers the essential, and sometimes unsettling, answer.
Author: Richard Aldington
Format: Hardback
Published: 1951, Readers Union / William Heinemann
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Few literary lives burn as brightly — or as controversially — as that of D. H. Lawrence, and Richard Aldington's Portrait of a Genius, but... chronicles the turbulent arc of Lawrence's existence from his coal-mining roots in Nottinghamshire in 1885 to his death in 1930 with unflinching candour. Drawing on intimate personal acquaintance with his subject, Aldington presents a vivid and unsparing account of the novelist, poet, and provocateur whose works — from Sons and Lovers to Lady Chatterley's Lover — ignited fierce debate about censorship, sexuality, and the human condition in the modern age. Aldington writes with the authority of both a literary contemporary and a seasoned biographer, weaving Lawrence's restless travels across Europe, Australia, and New Mexico into a portrait of an artist perpetually at war with the world and himself. The biography is at once a celebration and a reckoning — acknowledging Lawrence's towering genius while refusing to excuse the prickliness, the prejudices, and the painful contradictions that defined him. For anyone who has ever been gripped by Lawrence's incandescent prose and wondered at the man behind it, Aldington's account offers the essential, and sometimes unsettling, answer.