Preface to D. H. Lawrence
By Gamini Salgado
Aug 2000
Pearson Education / Longman
ISBN: 0582437660
192 pages
$52.50 Paper original
D. H. Lawrence, criticized, censored and dismissed in his lifetime, now stands as one of the major imaginative novelists of the early twentieth-century.Clear, vivid and convincing, Gamini Salgado's introduction to the life and works of D H Lawrence, sets the writer firmly in the context of his times and:
* outlines his life and intellectual background, and their effect on his writing
* looks in detail at many of Lawrence's works, including Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, his shorter fiction, poetry and plays
* examines Lawrence as a literary critic
* covers important people and places in Lawrence's life and their effect on himGamini Salgado was formerly Professor of English at Exeter University. His works include a book on Sons and Lovers (Arnold), an anthology of criticism of it (Macmillan) and a number of studies of drama and prose literature.
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'Longman Preface books are intended to give "modern and authoritative guidance" on the lives and works of the major writers ... Gamini Salgado's A Preface to Lawrence does just that.'
Times Educational Supplement.