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The White Peacock

Author
D. H. Lawrence
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
12 hours 7 minutes
ISBN
9781802563665
Published
12 March 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • English countryside
  • love
  • relationships
  • identity
  • insecurity
  • self-doubt
  • infatuation
  • self-destruction
  • unrequited love
  • conformity

Description

"The White Peacock" by D.H. Lawrence is a tale of love, ambition, and the complexities of human relationships set against the backdrop of rural England. Alfred Brangwen, a young man torn between his artistic aspirations and familial duties, becomes entangled with Ida Greggs, a spirited woman seeking independence. Their tumultuous relationship reflects the tensions between tradition and modernity, as well as the struggle for self-realization. Through rich symbolism and vivid imagery, Lawrence explores themes of desire, social class, and the search for meaning in a changing world. This early work showcases Lawrence's keen insight into human nature.

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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