The Plumed Serpent (Annotated)

Set in post-revolutionary Mexico, The Plumed Serpent follows Kate Leslie, an Irish widow whose encounter with Ramón Carrasco and Cipriano Viedma draws her into a visionary movement seeking to revive the cult of Quetzalcoatl. Lawrence combines political allegory, mythic ritual, psychological drama, and sensuous landscape writing in a prose style at once incantatory and uneasy. Published in 1926, th...