»Longman Preface books are intended to give ‘modern and authoritative guidance’ on the lives and works of the major writers … Gamini Salgado »s A Preface to Lawrence does just that. » Times Educational Supplement
D. H. Lawrence, criticised, censored and dismissed in his lifetime, now stands as one of the major imaginative novelists of the early twentieth-century.
Clear, vivid and convincing, Gamini Salgado »s introduction to the life and works of D H Lawrence, sets the writer firmly in the context of his times and:
* outlines his life and intellectual background, and their effect on his writing
* looks in detail at many of Lawrence »s works, including Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, his shorter fiction, poetry and plays
* examines Lawrence as a literary critic
* covers important people and places in Lawrence »s life and their effect on him
Gamini Salgado was formerly Professor of English at Exeter University. His works include a book on Sons and Lovers (Arnold), an anthology of critisism of it (Macmillan) and a number of studies of drama and prose literature.
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