Sea and Sardinia

by Lawrence, D. H.; Kalnins, Mara; Franks, Jill; Franks, Jill

• ISBN13: 9780141180762
• ISBN10: 0141180765
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

In January 1921, D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda visited Sardinia. Although the trip lasted only nine days, Lawrence wrote an intriguing account of Sicilian life that not only evokes the place, people, and local customs but is also deeply revealing about the writer himself. Remarkable for its metaphoric and symbolic descriptions, the book is transfused with the author's anger and joy. His prejudices and his political prophecies make Sea and Sardinia a unique and dynamic piece of travel writing.

Author Biography

The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.

Table of Contents

Note on the Penguin Lawrence Edition	vi
Chronology	vii
Introduction	xiii
Note on the Text	xxxi
Advisory Editor's Note	1	(2)
Sea and Sardinia	3	(190)
Appendix: Maps of Sardinia, Sicily and Southern Italy (c. 1921)	193	(6)
Explanatory Notes	199	(9)
Glossary of Italian	208	(3)
Further Reading	211