num_pages: 656
description: Drawing on nearly 2,000 previously unpublished letters, Brenda Maddox presents a rich and startlingly new portrait of D. H. Lawrence: a hilarious mimic, a lover of nature, an inspired teacher, a brilliant journalist, an ecological visionary, and, above all - a married man. This award-winning work examines Lawrence's perplexing, restless life through the greatest contradiction in it - his marriage - taking it not just as another aspect of Lawrence but as the encompassing whole. His marriage to Frieda von Richthofen Weekley was a mismatch made in heaven, and yet it lasted until the tubercular Lawrence lost his heroic struggle for life, a struggle in which, he told Frieda, "nothing mattered but you." Or so she claimed.
language: English
title: D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage
titlecomplete: D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage
genres: 20th Century, Biography, Nonfiction, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 70
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company