Mornings in Mexico by D. H. Lawrence

Mornings in Mexico is a collection of travel essays by D. H. Lawrence, first published by Martin Secker in 1927. These brief works display Lawrence's gifts as a travel writer, catching the 'spirit of place' in his own vivid manner. Lawrence wrote the first four of these essays at the same time as he was completing and revising his Mexican novel The Plumed Serpent (1926). Three of the others, about Puebloans, were written earlier in 1924 in New Mexico, and the final piece "A Little Moonshine with Lemon" came later as Lawrence remembered his New Mexico ranch (Kiowa Ranch) from Italy. The Cambridge Edition, Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays edited by Virginia Crosswhite Hyde (2009), adds an additional twelve essays, most of them concerning American Southwestern peoples and places. The eight essays in the original volume are: "Corasmin and the Parrots" "Walk to Huayapa" "The Mozo" "Market Day" "Indians and Entertainment" "Dance of the Sprouting Corn" "The Hopi Snake Dance" "A Little Moonshine with Lemon". (This summary is from Wikipedia.)

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Author Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930
LoC No. 50048537
Title Mornings in Mexico
Original Publication London: Martin Secker, 1927.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornings_in_Mexico
Contents Corasmin and the parrots -- Walk to Huayapa -- The mozo -- Market day -- Indians and entertainment -- The dance of the sprouting corn -- The Hopi snake dance -- A little moonshine with lemon.
Credits Paul Fatula, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Summary Mornings in Mexico is a collection of travel essays by D. H. Lawrence, first published by Martin Secker in 1927. These brief works display Lawrence's gifts as a travel writer, catching the 'spirit of place' in his own vivid manner.
Lawrence wrote the first four of these essays at the same time as he was completing and revising his Mexican novel The Plumed Serpent (1926). Three of the others, about Puebloans, were written earlier in 1924 in New Mexico, and the final piece "A Little Moonshine with Lemon" came later as Lawrence remembered his New Mexico ranch (Kiowa Ranch) from Italy. The Cambridge Edition, Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays edited by Virginia Crosswhite Hyde (2009), adds an additional twelve essays, most of them concerning American Southwestern peoples and places.
The eight essays in the original volume are:
"Corasmin and the Parrots"
"Walk to Huayapa"
"The Mozo"
"Market Day"
"Indians and Entertainment"
"Dance of the Sprouting Corn"
"The Hopi Snake Dance"
"A Little Moonshine with Lemon".
(This summary is from Wikipedia.)
Language English
LoC Class F1201: North America local history: Mexico
Subject Mexico -- Description and travel
Subject Indians of Mexico
Subject Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 -- Travel -- North America
Subject Indian dance -- Southwest, New
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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