The Lost Girl
Author(s): LAWRENCE D H
A classic Lawrentian tale of passionate love and ruined lives. Critic Lee Siegel argues in his Introduction that it's Lawrence's best novel and that readers today will at last understand why.This Modern Library version is ideal for reading groups. Alvina Houghton's tale of middle-class repression and her elopement with a handsome Italian circus performer will lead to many discussions. A reading group guide will be bound into the book. Also includes endnotes by top Lawrence scholar, Keith Cushman.
General Information
- :
- : Random House USA Inc
- : Modern Library Inc
- : 0.286
- : 01 September 2003
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : LAWRENCE D H
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 823.912
- : 400
More About The Product
[Lawrence was] a writer with an extraordinary sense of the physical world, of the colour and texture and shape of things, for whom the body was alive and the problems of the body insistent and important. Virginia Woolf"
Lee Siegel is a critic and essayist living in New York City, whose writing about literature, art, politics, film, and television has appeared in "Harper's," "The New Republic," "Time," "The Atlantic Monthly," and "The New Yorker," among other publications. He received the 2002 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism.
