The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence (1968 Penguin Paperback Edition)
The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence (1968 Penguin Paperback Edition)Awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, The Lost Girl is a traditional tale of passion, sexual awakening, devastation, and destitution.Just as the lovely Alvina Houghton comes of age, her widowed father’s business starts to dry up. In a drastic effort to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s standing in society, James Houghton buys, of all things, a theater. Her father’s plans and dreams go misunderstood in the town, but the theater itself does quite well...for a time. One of the traveling players employed at the theater, a sensual Italian man named Ciccio, catches Alvina’s eye, and she finds herself intensely attracted to him.Vintage Paperback / Penguin Books / 1968 / Good Condition