Kangaroo
About this book
Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife Harriet in the early 1920s. This appears to be semi-autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, in 1922.Australian journalist Robert Darroch – in several articles in the late 1970s, and a 1981 book entitled D.H. Lawrence in Australia – claimed that Lawrence based Kangaroo on real people and events he witnessed in Australia.
"Kangaroo" is the fictional nickname of one of Lawrence's characters, Benjamin Cooley, a prominent ex-soldier and lawyer, who is also the leader of a secretive, fascist paramilitary organisation, the "Diggers Club". David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885– 2 March 1930) was an English writer andpoet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Kangaroo
- Table of contents
- CHAP: I. TORESTIN
- CHAP: II. NEIGHBOURS
- CHAP: III. LARBOARD WATCH AHOY!
- CHAP: IV. JACK AND JAZ
- CHAP: V. COO-EE
- CHAP: VI. KANGAROO
- CHAP: VII. THE BATTLE OF TONGUES
- CHAP: VIII. VOLCANIC EVIDENCE
- CHAP: IX. HARRIET AND LOVAT AT SEA IN MARRIAGE
- CHAP: X. DIGGERS
- CHAP: XI. WILLIE STRUTHERS AND KANGAROO
- CHAP: XII. THE NIGHTMARE
- CHAP: XIII. “REVENGE!” TIMOTHEUS CRIES
- CHAP: XIV. BITS.
- CHAP: XV. JACK SLAPS BACK
- CHAP: XVI. A ROW IN TOWN
- CHAP: XVII. KANGAROO IS KILLED
- CHAP: XVIII. ADIEU AUSTRALIA
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