The White Peacock
By: D.H. Lawrence ; edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw.
Contributors: Bradshaw, David, 1955-
Series: World's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Young men -- Fiction; Midlands (England) -- Fiction
Description: Lawrence's first novel is a compelling exploration of the estrangements of modern life. Focusing on three relationships - one destructively stillborn, one disastrously unfulfilling, and one passionately unspoken - Lawrence exploits the language and conventions of the rural tradition to foreground man's alienation from the natural world.

His evocation of the vanishing countryside of the English Midlands, as seen through the eyes of the effete Cyril Beardsall, is both vivid and arresting, and as the novel draws towards its tragic conclusion Lawrence handles his themes with an increasingly visionary power. The White Peacock is both a fascinating precursor of the more famous novels to come and a moving and challenging book in its own right.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxiii-xxxiv).