The White Peacock (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By D. H. Lawrence

In his first novel, written at age twenty-five, D. H. Lawrence’s gifts as a storyteller are on full display. The White Peacock explores the impact of industrialism on Lawrence’s beloved countryside from the viewpoint of the educated and cultured Cyril Beardsall, as well as themes of failure-bound marriages and the limbo between the city and the country.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Mar 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411438637

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.