The White Peacock (Annotated)

D. H. Lawrence's The White Peacock (1911) is a richly sensuous first novel set in the Nottinghamshire countryside, where rural beauty, erotic longing, and social constraint entwine. Through the narrator Cyril Beardsall's recollections, the novel traces the emotional entanglements of Lettie Beardsall, George Saxton, and Leslie Tempest, opposing instinctive vitality to class ambition and conventiona...