Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Lawrence, D. H.

The plumed serpent (Quetzalcoatl) D. H. Lawrence - New York Alfred A. Knopf 1926 - 445 p.

The novel has a contemporary setting during the period of the Mexican Revolution. It opens with a group of tourists visiting a bullfight in Mexico City. One of them, Kate Leslie, departs in disgust and encounters Don Cipriano, a Mexican general. Later she meets his friend, intellectual land-owner Don Ramon, and travels to Sayula, a small town set on a lake. Ramon and Cipriano are leading a revival of a pre-Christian religion and Kate becomes drawn into their cult.


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