Etruscan Places: Travels Through Forgotten Italy [Audiobook] download free by D H Lawrence
- Listen audiobook: Etruscan Places: Travels Through Forgotten Italy
- Author: D H Lawrence
- Release date: 2012/5/20
- Publisher: I.B.TAURIS & CO. LTD.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781848855328
- Rating: 7.14 of 10
- Votes: 787
- Review by: Ember Whittle
- Review rating: 7.41 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/7
- Duration: 2H28M52S in 256 kbps (40 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-09
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WMA, MPC, FLAC, MPEG-4 SLS, WMA Lossless, MP3, WAV (compression AZW3, ZIP, RAR, TZ, JAR)
- Total pages original book: 200
- Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M58S (3.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The Etruscan civilisation, which flourished from the 8th until the 5th century BC in what is now Tuscany, is one of the most fascinating and mysterious in history. An uninhibited, elemental people, the Etruscans enthralled D.H. Lawrence, who craved their 'old wisdom', the secret of their vivacity and love of life. To him they represented the antithesis of everything he despised in the modern world, perhaps because their spontaneity and naturalness struck a chord with his own quest for personal and artistic freedom - so often censured or repressed. Lawrence approaches the enigmatic Etruscans as a poet, passionately and searchingly, and so the reader is swept up in his luminous descriptions of a utopian world where dancing and feasting, art and music were everything. The exhilaration of Lawrence in his Etruscan adventures stands in stark contrast to his intimations of the darkness of Mussolini's Italy - at a time when Europe was beginning its inexorable drift towards tragedy. The last of Lawrence's travel books, 'Etruscan Places' is an ephemeral and vivid account, replete with hauntingly evocative descriptions of the way of life of this once great civilisation.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Guidebooks, European History, Travel Writing
- Download servers: MEGA, Volafile, Uploaded, 4Shared, Dropbox, Koofr, Torrent. Compressed in AZW3, ZIP, RAR, TZ, JAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.34 USD
- Dimensions: 129.54x195.58x17.78mm
- Weight: 204.12g
- Printed by: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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