Sea and Sardinia (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1921
- Type of Work: Travel writing
- Time of Work: January, 1921
- Setting: Sicily, Sardinia, and Civitavecchia, Italy
- Principal Characters: D. H. Lawrence, Frieda (The Q-B) Lawrence
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: Voyages, Manners or customs, Islands, Lifestyles, Italy or Italians, Peasantry or peasants
Form and Content
Sea and Sardinia is chronologically the second of D.H. Lawrence’s Italian travel books, after Twilight in Italy (1916) and before Etruscan Places (1932), which was written two years before Lawrence’s death and published posthumously. In most respects, Sea and Sardinia is not like a travel book at all, at least not as one normally understands that genre, for there is little in the way of specific guidebook commentary or romantic reflections. Though written almost as a journal of the brief trip to and through Sardinia which...
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