David Herbert Lawrence

The Old Adam David Herbert Lawrence

The Old Adam (+Biography and Bibliography) (Matte Cover Finish): This book is one of the most popular novels of David Herbert Lawrence, and has been translated into several other languages around the world."The maid who opened the door was just developing into a handsome womanhood. Therefore she seemed to have the in- solent pride of one newly come to an inheritance. She would be a splendid woman to look at, having just enough of Jewish blood to enrich her comeliness into beauty. At nineteen her fine grey eyes looked challenge, and her warm complexion, her black hair looped up slack, enforced the sensuous folding of her mouth. She wore no cap nor apron, but a well-looking sleeved over- all such as even very ladies don. The man she opened to was tall and thin, but graceful in his energy. He wore white flannels, carried a tennis-racket. With a light bow to the maid he stepped beside her on the threshold. He was one of those who attract by their movement, whose movement is watched unconsciously, as we watch the flight of a sea-bird waving its wing leisurely. Instead of entering the house, the young man stood beside the maid-servant and looked back into the blackish evening. When in repose, he had the diffident, ironic bearing so remarkable in the educated youth of to-day, the very reverse of that traditional aggressive- ness of youth."