Sea and Sardinia
by D. H. Lawrence
After World War I, while living in Sicily, the Sea and Sardinia, the book records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and his return in January 1921. This, as well as its enthusiastic reaction to the new landscape and people, also reveals the ability to transform the soul of the place into literary art. Like his other travels, the book is a clever inquiry into the political and social values of a time of increasing communism and fascism. On one level, modern materialism's "Sea and Geranium" accusation is, nevertheless, an optimistic book that praises the creativity of the human spirit and seeks fresh inspiration for the present in the basic laws of human nature.
