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Kangaroo by D. H. Lawrence is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Kangaroo about?

A landmark D. H. Lawrence novel, considered to be among the best writing about Australia. After the Great War, Richard Lovat Somers, a writer, and Harriet, his wife, leave disillusioned Europe for Australia. Almost immediately, Somers comes into the orbit of the charismatic 'Kangaroo', who leads a shadowy political movement in Sydney. With its astonishing descriptions of the bush 'biding its time with a terrible ageless watchfulness', and its free-form narrative, Kangaroo captivates and provokes. First published in 1923, D. H. Lawrence's semi-autobiographical novel is among the most significant works in Australian literature. In Nicolas Rothwell's new introduction to Kangaroo , he writes: 'Everyone who seeks to find words that match the Australian landscape is...an inheritor of Lawrence. He made the bush a serious subject for literary endeavour.' D. H. Lawrence , born in England in 1885, is one of the key figures in literary...

Who reads Kangaroo?

Author

D. H. Lawrence

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2018

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.2 / 5 (295 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14