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The Lost Girl

Author
D. H. Lawrence
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
360 pages
ISBN
9781909904736
Published
15 October 2013
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Coming of age
  • Self-discovery
  • Identity
  • Love triangle
  • Spirituality
  • Society
  • Nature
  • Small town life
  • Personal fulfillment
  • Inner conflict

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Description

The Lost Girl is a novel by D. H. Lawrence that follows the story of Alvina Houghton, a young woman living in a small mining town in England. Feeling restless and unfulfilled with her life, Alvina decides to leave her hometown and travels to London in search of a new purpose. In London, Alvina meets a variety of characters, including two men named Ciccio and Natcha, who both fall in love with her. However, she struggles to find happiness with either of them, as she remains uncertain about her own desires and the direction her life should take. The Lost Girl is a compelling exploration of identity, love, and personal fulfillment, told with D. H. Lawrence's trademark psychological insight and poetic prose.

Author

D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) wrote as a prophet of authentic living in an age of machines. Novelist, poet, and essayist, he traced how industrial England suffocated instinct — and how love, nature, and honest desire might restore it. From the coal-country childhood of Sons and Lovers to the contested passion of Lady Chatterley's Lover, his fiction asks what it means to be fully alive when society prefers you obedient.

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