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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 19971212
Author:Naomi Doudai

Naomi Doudai
Jerusalem Post
12-12-1997
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE. Compiled and Edited by James T. Boulton. Cambridge University Press. 524 pp. Price not stated.

D.H. Lawrence was reviled and hounded in his lifetime (1885-1930), and his achievement as the scion of the new English novel enjoyed little more than a posthumous triumph. His challenge to the hypocritical gentility and distorted view of love and life of the middle class, his advocacy of unfettered freedom in love together with his deprecation of promiscuous or perpetual sex, met with universal furor. He was plagued all ...

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