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Aaron's Rod is a picaresque novel by D. H. Lawrence, started in 1918 and published in 1922.
Aaron Sisson, a union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, is trapped in a stale marriage. He is also an amateur, but talented, flautist. At the start of the story... Read Full Overview

The Cambridge Edition of Aaron's Rod is based on the only authoritative surviving typescript.

"在那之上，您将比其他事情更接近它：仅仅因为许多无知的猴子想要一只自己的猴子来做联盟的工作，并且嘲笑他们，他们想摆脱您，并且... Read Full Overview

In Aaron's Rod, a satirical, ultra-masculine narrative with unconsciously homosexual undertones by controversial literary legend D. H. Lawrence, protagonist Aaron Sisson has grown tired of his dulling marriage and monotonous daily life working a desk job for a coal mine business... Read Full Overview

The Cambridge Edition of Aaron's Rod is based on the only authoritative surviving typescript.

Lawrence called Aaron's Rod 'the last of my serious English novels - the end of The Rainbow, Women in Love line.' Written in the years following the First World War, Aaron's Rod questions many of the accepted social and political institutions of Lawrence's own generation and... Read Full Overview

Aaron's Rod is a picaresque novel by D. H. Lawrence, started in 1918 and published in 1922.

Aaron Sisson, a union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, is trapped in a stale marriage. He is also an amateur, but talented, flautist. At the start of the story... Read Full Overview

Aaron's Rod is a picaresque novel by D. H. Lawrence, started in 1918 and published in 1922.

Lawrence's satirical work in which he presents a bitter view of humanity and of the relationship between men and women. Aaron Sisson, a union official in an English mining town, leaves for Italy, deserting his wife and children to pursue politics and his original interest in... Read Full Overview

Aaron's Rod is a picaresque novel by D. H. Lawrence, started in 1918 and published in 1922.

"Aaron's Rod" was completed in 1921 and was censored by both Lawrence's American and English publishers.Written in the years following World War I and set in postwar England and Italy, "Aaron's Rod" questions many of the accepted social and political institutions of Lawrence's... Read Full Overview

Aaron Sisson, a union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, is trapped in a stale marriage. He is also an amateur, but talented, flautist. At the start of the story he walks out on his wife and two children and decides on impulse to visit Italy. His dream is to... Read Full Overview

Lawrence's satirical work in which he presents a bitter view of humanity and of the relationship between men and women. Aaron Sisson, a union official in an English mining town, leaves for Italy, deserting his wife and children to pursue politics and his original interest in... Read Full Overview

Aaron Sisson, a union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, is trapped in a stale marriage. He is also an amateur, but talented, flautist. At the start of the story he walks out on his wife and two children and decides on impulse to visit Italy. His dream is to... Read Full Overview

Aaron Sisson, a union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, is trapped in a stale marriage. He is also an amateur, but talented, flautist. At the start of the story he walks out on his wife and two children and decides on impulse to visit Italy. His dream is to... Read Full Overview

Lawrence's satirical work in which he presents a bitter view of humanity and of the relationship between men and women. Aaron Sisson, a union official in an English mining town, leaves for Italy, deserting his wife and children to pursue politics and his original interest in... Read Full Overview

Lawrence's satirical work in which he presents a bitter view of humanity and of the relationship between men and women. Aaron Sisson, a union official in an English mining town, leaves for Italy, deserting his wife and children to pursue politics and his original interest in... Read Full Overview

Written in the years following World War I and set in postwar England and Italy, Aaron's Rod questions many of the accepted social and political institutions of Lawrence's generation, and raises issues as valid for our own time as they were for his. The novel's hero is an Everyman... Read Full Overview