Twilight in Italy (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1916
- Type of Work: Travel essays
- Time of Work: 1912-1913
- Setting: The Tyrol; Lago di Garda, Italy
- Principal Characters: D. H. Lawrence, Frieda Weekley, Il Duro, John (giovanni)
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: Family or family life, Traveling or travelers, Italy or Italians, Peasantry or peasants, Austrian Tirol, Walking
- Locales: Lago di Garda, Italy, Tyrol, Italy
TWILIGHT IN ITALY is a small book of travel essays, worth reading both for their own sake and for the light they throw on the context of Lawrence’s work.
D. H. Lawrence was a prolific and versatile writer whose plays, poems, novels, novellas, and short stories—more than forty volumes produced in a writing life of twenty years—often need to be read in the context of his essays, pamphlets, and travel books. There are four of these last, excluding the passages of description in his letters recording his expatriation in Europe, America, and Australia. The first of these...
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