Twilight in Italy

<p><b>D.H. Lawrence's first travel book and an important insight into the roots of his literary genius.</b><br><br>In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence left England for the first time and travelled to northern Italy. He spent nearly a year on the shores of Lake Garda, lodged in elegantly decaying houses set amid lemon groves and surrounded by the fading life of traditional Italy. This is a travel book unlike any other, where landscapes and people are backdrops to Lawrence's deeper wanderings - into philosophy, opinion, life, nature, religion and the fate of man.<br><br>With sensuous descriptions of late harvests, darkening days and fragile ancient traditions, <i>Twilight in Italy</i> is suffused with nostalgia and premonition. For, looming over the idyll of rural Italy hover dark spectres: the arrival of the industrial age and the brewing storm of World War I, upheavals that would change the face of Europe forever.</p>