The lost girl
By: D.H. Lawrence ; introduction by Lee Siegel ; notes by Keith Cushman.
Series: The Modern Library classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction; British -- Italy -- Fiction; Circus performers -- Fiction; Midlands (England) -- Fiction; Naples (Italy) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The Lost Girl, D.H. Lawrence's forgotten novel, is a passionate tale of longing and sexual defiance, of devastation and destitution. Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father's business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter's proper upbringing, James Houghton buys a theater. Among the traveling performers he employs is Ciccio, a sensual Italian who immediately captures Alvina's attention. Fleeing with him to Naples, she leaves her safe world behind and enters one of sexual awakening, desire, and fleeting freedom.