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Life with a Capital L

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241344606

  • Length: 512  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 28mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 317g

  • RRP: £9.99

Life with a Capital L

A brilliantly varied new selection of D. H. Lawrence's essays, chosen and introduced by Geoff Dyer

For D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, 'the one bright book of life', yet his non-fiction shows him at his most freewheeling and playful. This is a selection of his essays, on subjects including art, morality, obscenity, songbirds, Italy, Thomas Hardy, the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains and the narcissism of photographing ourselves. Arranged chronologically to illuminate the patterns of Lawrence's thought over time, and including many little-known pieces, they reveal a writer of enduring freshness and force.

'The greatest writer of this century, and in many things the greatest writer of all times' Philip Larkin

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241344606

  • Length: 512  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 28mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 317g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • In Life with a Capital L, Geoff Dyer has selected some of [Lawrence's] most fascinating and accessible pieces to tempt new readers. Comedy and humour abound, as does a provocative honesty. [...] There are countless examples in this volume of Lawrence at his poetic best.

    Gerri Kimber, Times Literary Supplement

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About the Author

D H Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist, storywriter, critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. Among his works, Sons and Lovers appeared in 1913, The Rainbow in 1915, Women In Love in 1920, and many others. Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta in 1962. He has contributed fiction, poetry and reviews to numerous publications including The Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Yorker and Granta magazine. He is editor of The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, published in 2001. His most recent book is St. Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005).

D H Lawrence

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