num_pages: 552
description: Kangaroo is D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia. He wrote the first draft in just forty-five days while living south of Sydney, in 1922, and revised it three months later in New Mexico. The descriptions of the country are vivid and sympathetic and the book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of political ideas at an immensely personal level. Based on a collation of the manuscript, typescripts and first editions, this text of Kangaroo is closest to what Lawrence would have expected to see in print. There is a full textual apparatus of variants, a comprehensive introduction giving the background and history of composition and publication and a summary of contemporary reviewers' opinions. Explanatory notes elucidate the many geographical, political and literary allusions in the text; there are three maps and an appendix detailing Australian locations.
language: English
title: Kangaroo
titlecomplete: Kangaroo (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)
genres: Classics, British Literature, Australia, English Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 571
publisher: Cambridge University Press