Aaron's Rod

Complete and unabridged, with 52 full-page plates by Giovanni Boldini, Edvard Munch and William Orpen. Aaron Sisson walks out of his house on Christmas Eve — wife, children, pit job and all — with a flute and no plan, and drifts through post-war London and Italy in the company of a writer who will not leave him alone. Lawrence wrote it in the years he was leaving England for good, and the argument...