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Aaron's Rod

Florence becomes the setting for Lawrence's exploration of unstable convictions, as impulse and fractured moral assumptions unsettle the direction of a life.

Literary fiction

Etruscan Places

D.H. Lawrence

Lawrence approaches Italy's ancient past with a traveler's curiosity, finding an alternative cultural world in the traces of Etruscan places.

History

Mornings in Mexico

D.H. Lawrence

Lawrence's essays linger over Indigenous Mexican lives and rituals, bringing the intensity of his observation to unfamiliar customs and landscapes.

Essays

Sea and Sardinia

D.H. Lawrence

Lawrence and his wife travel impulsively to Sardinia, finding ferries, railway compartments and chance encounters as absorbing as the island's monuments.

Travel writing

The Plumed Serpent

D.H. Lawrence

Lawrence's Mexican novel brings ancient Aztec religion into a vivid imaginative exploration of belief and the country's powerful cultural inheritances.

Literary fiction

Twilight in Italy

D.H. Lawrence

Lawrence's Italian travels become searching encounters with place and daily life, part of the collection that also includes Sea and Sardinia.

History

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