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The Plumed Serpent
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D. H. Lawrence's fantastic tale of bullfighting, revolution and ancient cults. Kate Leslie, a tourist in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, meets a Mexican general, Don Cipriano, and his influential landowner friend Don Ramon, who she discovers are attempting to resurrect an ancient cult.
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D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert (D. H.) Lawrence was a prolific English novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, literary critic and painter. His most notable works include Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Rainbow, Sons and Lovers and Women in Love.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Superbe, 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)
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Felt like I was in high school - not enjoying the read but pushing through anyway.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Read as a narrative fiction, it is as bad as Kangaroo. Perhaps it is. Read as a hypothesised invention of religion it makes some sense.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This 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.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Read as a narrative fiction, it is as bad as Kangaroo. Perhaps it is. Read as a hypothesised invention of religion it makes some sense.