In this disturbing late novel, Lawrence's pagan side finds full expression. Kate Leslie, an Irish widow visiting Mexico. finds herself equally repelled and fascinated by what she sees as the primitive cruelty of the country. As she becomes involved with the intellectual and political leader Don Rarnon,and General Cipriano, a pure-bred Indian of raw sexual energy, her perceptions change.

Caught up in the plans of these two men to revive the old Aztec religion and political order, she submits to the 'blood-consciousness’and phallic power that they represent.

The fascination of The Plumed Serpent is indisputable. It cannot be said to be one of D H Lawrence’s greatest novels, but it is symptomatic of his later work. In it, he indulges in a kind of literary fascism that may be particularly unappealing to women, but men, too,will be aghast at some of the Nietzschean models of intellectual and military supermen. Of all Lawrence’s novels, it is the one that his champions find hardest to defend, but it is important both as evidence of Lawrence’s literary development and as an indication of the desire among even the most liberal of the period for a new and different political and religious scheme of things……

Beginnings of a Bull-fight

Tea-party in Tlacolula

Fortieth Birthday

To Stay or Not to Stay

The Lake

The Move Down the Lake

The Plaza

Night in the House

Casa de las Cuentas

Don Ram6n and Dofia Carlota

Lords of the Day and Night

The First Waters

The First Rain

Home to Sayula

The Written Hymns of Quetzalcoatl

Cipriano and Kate

Fourth Hymn and the Bishop

Auto da Fe

The Attack on Jamiltepec

Marriage by Quetzalcoad

The Opening of the Church

The Living Huitzilopochdi

Huitzilopochtli"s Night

Malintzi

Teresa

Kate is a Wife

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