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The Trespasser

Author
D. H. Lawrence
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
204 pages
ISBN
9781909904781
Published
15 October 2013
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Love affair
  • societal constraints
  • social class
  • jealousy
  • possessiveness
  • London society
  • gender
  • self-actualization
  • passion
  • destruction

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Siegmund the musician, Helena the free woman, a few days that will not stay stolen. Lawrence’s Trespasser is desire against the timetable — class, jealousy, the Isle of Wight as a brief republic of feeling. Passion that knows it has a return ticket. A few days’ leave from a marriage and a classroom. The sea is bright; the return is the tax. Lawrence already knows that passion does not cancel the timetable, it only charges it. Helena and Siegmund’s borrowed week: the Isle of Wight as a brief republic.

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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