Kangaroo
By: by David Herbert Lawrence
Publisher: Createspace independent Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [North Charleston, SC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781515364535
Subjects: Women in the theater; English Authors; Fiction; Political activists; Social conditions
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 in three months later in New Mexico. The descriptions of the country are among the most vivid and sympathetic ever penned, and the book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of political ideas at an immensely personal level. His anxiety about the future of democracy, caught as it was in the turbulent cross currents of fascism and socialism, is only partly appeased by his vision of a new bond of comradeship between men based on their unique separateness. Lawrence's alter ego Richard Somers departs for America to continue his search.
Notes: "Reading Ennobles - reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body"--The cover.