Dec 22, 2009

Sea and Sardinia | Sea and Sardinia

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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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Sea and Sardinia | Sea and Sardinia

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Form and Content

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