The Plumed Serpent

D. H. Lawrence

Original title: The plumed serpent

Also published as: Quetzalcoatl

earliest edition we have, 1955 Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999 paperback 416 pages

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"Quetzalcoatl was written during Lawrence's first stay in Mexico, in May and June 1923, and registers his initial responses to those aspects of Mexican landscape, religion, politics and culture which would fascinate him over the following two years. On leaving Mexico in July 1923, he described Quetzalcoatl as 'nearly finished', intending to revise it later, but in the event actually rewrote it almost completely, and...

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Editions we hold

The Plumed Serpent paperback · 2005 · Dodo Press · 544 pages · 9781905432592
Plumed Serpent paperback · 1999 · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · 416 pages
Quetzalcoatl edition · 1998 · New Directions · 333 pages
Quetzalcoatl edition · 1995 · Black Swan Books · 333 pages
The plumed serpent edition · 1995 · Penguin · 475 pages
The plumedserpent edition · 1989 · Grafton · 423 pages
The plumed serpent edition · 1989 · Grafton Books · 423 pages
Le serpent à plumes edition · 1979 · [Librairie Générale Francaise]
The plumed serpent edition · 1979 · Penguin in association with Heinemann · 462 pages
Le Serpent à plumes et autres œuvres mexicaines edition · 1976 · Stock · 756 pages
The Plumed Serpent edition · 1959 · Vintage Books · 487 pages
The plumed serpent edition · 1955 · Heinemann

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