D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes

Name: D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Paul Strathern
ISBN: 9781433217630

Author: Paul Strathern

Narrator: Robert Whitfield

Unabridged: 1 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/27/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

By the end of his life, D. H. Lawrence had despaired of Western civilization, which he felt had corrupted and weakened the human spirit. He believed that we had somehow lost touch with our instinctual being and no longer responded to the "true voice" of our blood. His works were an attempt to revive a life we have lost, and in them it is possible to glimpse something vivid, something now damaged, that we nonetheless recognize in ourselves. This is his undeniable legacy. D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes offers a concise, expert account of Lawrences life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on mans struggle to understand his place in the world. The book also includes a list of Lawrences chief works, a chronology of his life and times, and recommended reading for those who wish to delve deeper.

About Paul Strathern

Paul Strathern is a Somerset Maugham Prize-winning novelist and the author of many nonfiction titles, including The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior; Napoleon in Egypt; and Mendeleyev's Dream, which was short-listed for the Aventis Prize. Paul lives in England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by counter-hegemonicon

Yeahhh the soviets were right to ban bourgeois lit. There is just like nothing to this guy but a bunch of philandering, getting cheated on, mommy issues, daddy issues, and rightist ideology. Oh and an utter lack of rigor and true philosophical underpinnings, worst of all a longing for domination. It......more

Goodreads review by Robert

Before reading this the only thing I knew about D.H. Lawrence was that he lived a kind of scandalous lifestyle (for the time) in Mexico. But after reading this I realize he was kind of "out there" in his whole way of thinking. So mystical. I find people like him fascinating because they are so differ......more

Goodreads review by Ryan

Decent overview of D.H. Lawrence's life, which until this I basically knew as "wrote Lady Chatterly's Lover". Didn't realize how basically autobiographical most of his work was; a coal miner's son who hooked up with an aristocratic woman, took her away from her husband and children, etc. I've never......more