Bid Me to Live - Tapa dura

"Demonstrates an avant-garde mode of writing about the Great War, depicting the experience of non-combatants. Zilboorg's excellent critical edition will help introduce this fascinating, much underrated modernist text to a new readership."--Modern Language Review "Bid Me to Live is [H.D.'s] finest and most moving novel, and Caroline Zilboorg's elegant new scholarly edition is a timely reminder of why she was acclaimed for her sinuous prose, which wrestles compellingly with the fault lines of gender, sexuality and psychology."--Women: A Cultural Review

In the riveting and intense Bid Me to Live, H.D. documents her traumatic experiences during WWI on which she blamed a number of personal tragedies, including a stillborn child, the end of her marriage, and her pained relationship with D. H. Lawrence. This critical edition returns the novel to print for the first time in a generation. Editor Caroline Zilboorg offers invaluable background information and perspectives that facilitate a rich and rewarding reading of a complex novel. Including an introduction that recounts the autobiographical narrative on which the book is based, a biographical key to all the major characters, explanations of textual references, and photographs of all the central figures in the text, this is a powerful resource for understanding and appreciating one of the Imagist author's most accessible novels.