The Plumed Serpent

By D. H. Lawrence

Touring Mexico, Kate Leslie is at first repelled by its “primitive” culture and the fervor of the country in the throes of the Mexican Revolution. When she meets Mexican general Don Cipriano, though, everything changes. He and the philosophical Don Ramón introduce Kate to their primeval religious beliefs, and Kate surrenders to a side of herself she did not know was there.

The Plumed Serpent was written in author D. H. Lawrence’s distinctive style, exploring the hidden desires and behaviors present in all of us. The novel was penned while the author was living in New Mexico on what is now the D. H. Lawrence Ranch.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Jan 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781443431873

D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11th September 1881 in Eastwood, a small mining village in Nottinghamshire, in the English Midlands. Despite ill health as a child and a comparatively disadvantageous position in society, he became a teacher in 1908, and took up a post in a school in Croydon, south of London. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, and from then until his death he wrote feverishly, producing poetry, novels, essays, plays travel books and short stories, while travelling around the world, settling for periods in Italy, New Mexico and Mexico. He married Frieda Weekley in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in 1930.

Reviews for The Plumed Serpent

[baswood · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Superbe, mystical,poetical: this is the mature Lawrence writing at the very top of his game. This is writing at its most powerful. I must have read this book at least five times during my life. If I had to take one book to a desert island this would be it. (along with a recording of John Coltrane's A Love supreme)

[xmaystarx · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Felt like I was in high school - not enjoying the read but pushing through anyway.

[zappa_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Read as a narrative fiction, it is as bad as Kangaroo. Perhaps it is. Read as a hypothesised invention of religion it makes some sense.

[danielstj · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a rather fascinating novel by D.H Lawrence that I believe is some of his best work. Kate is a broad and complex character who Lawrence explores in all her trails, premonitions, and errors through her romp in Mexico. There is much material that I understand would have been "scandalous" to the society in which Lawrence lived in. Nevertheless, this is a novel infused with fervour and plot twists and is fully worth the read for anyone interested in the classics.4 stars.

[michael_godfrey-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Read as a narrative fiction, it is as bad as Kangaroo. Perhaps it is. Read as a hypothesised invention of religion it makes some sense.