D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922–1930
The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence

The final volume of this biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Venice in 1930.

David Ellis (Author)

9781107402997, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 November 2011

850 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 4.3 cm, 1.17 kg

Review of the hardback: 'This is a work of great assiduity and completeness, a fit companion to the other two volumes of the Cambridge life.' The Sunday Times

Originally published in 1998, the final volume of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Venice in 1930. Based on much previously unfamiliar material, it describes his travels in Ceylon, Australia, the USA and Mexico in an increasingly desperate search for an ideal community. With his return to Europe in 1925, there is a detailed account of his rediscovery of painting, his battle against censorship, and the vitality with which he resisted the debilitating effects of tuberculosis. Kangaroo, The Plumed Serpent and Lady Chatterley's Lover are usually seen as the literary landmarks of these years; but this was the period in which Lawrence also wrote remarkable novellas, essays, criticism, short stories and poems. He is revealed here as a man both more complex and more humorous than is usually allowed, and exemplary in his resolute grappling with the central problems of his age.

Chronology
Maps
Part I. Faring Forth: 1. February–April 1922 Ceylon
2. April–August 1922 Australia
3. August–December 1922 New Mexico
4. December 1922–March 1923 Christmas at Del Monte
5. March–July 1923 Old Mexico
6. July–November 1923 New York, Los Angeles, Guadalajara
Part II. The Second Visit to America: 7. November 1923–March 1924 European interlude
8. March–October 1924 Back to New Mexico
9. October 1924–February 1925 Oaxaca and The Plumed Serpent
10. November 1924–February 1925 Brett is banished
11. February–September 1925 The return to the ranch
Part III. Europe Once More: 12. September 1925–April 1926 Spotorno
13. April–October 1926 Florence and England
14. October 1926–March 1927 Two Lady Chatterleys
15. March–August 1927 Change of life
16. August 1927–January 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover
17. January–June 1928 Last days at the Villa Mirenda
Part IV. The Marvel of Being Alive: 18. June–November 1928 The search for health
19. November 1928–March 1929 Bandol
20. March–July 1929 Old haunts and new
21. July 1929–January 1930 Battling on
22. January–2 March 1930 Vence
Appendix 1. The writing life, 1922–30: prose
Appendix 2. The writing life, 1922–30: poetry.

Subject Areas: Biography: general [BG]