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The White Peacock

Author
D. H. Lawrence
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
332 pages
ISBN
9781909904774
Published
15 October 2013
Imprint
Sovereign
  • English countryside
  • love
  • relationships
  • identity
  • insecurity
  • self-doubt
  • infatuation
  • self-destruction
  • unrequited love
  • conformity

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Lawrence’s first novel: Nethermere, Lettie Beardsall, George the farmer, Leslie the gentleman, and a narrator who watches love choose badly. The White Peacock is English fields and a restlessness already in the blood — beauty, class, the body starting to argue. Cyril sees too much; Lettie cannot want the right man at the right time. Mines, woods, a peacock’s scream. The first Lawrence, already impatient with a merely pretty England. Nethermere’s mines under the pretty fields.

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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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