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Circus & CarnivalClassic Love Stories

The Lost Girl

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  • 1920 first published
  • 378 pages
  • 38 editions
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Published in 1920, The Lost Girl is a circus fiction and classic romance novel by D. H. Lawrence. The story is set in Midlands, England and Italy. Readers will find themes of circus performers, young women, British and mate selection.

9 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 38 editions. On Project Gutenberg it was downloaded 946 times in the last 30 days.

It runs to roughly 378 pages — 6–7 hours of reading at an average pace. It is in the public domain in the United States and free to read on Project Gutenberg.

About The Lost Girl

The daughter of well-to-do trades people in the fictional mining town of Woodhouse, Alvina Houghton struggles to find excitement in her provincial surroundings and worries that she is condemned to become an old maid. After plans to elope with her lover to Australia and train as a nurse in London lead to nothing, she joins a traveling theater group and succumbs to the charms of the dark, passionate Italian Ciccio. This edition also contains pictures, personal notes, and other critical primary source material.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Circus performers
  • Young women
  • British
  • Mate selection
  • Middle class
  • Villages
  • English Romance fiction
  • Italy
  • England
  • British and irish fiction, Fictional works by one author
  • Lawrence, d. h., David herbert, 1885-1930
  • Psychological fiction
  • Love stories
  • Midlands, England
  • Naples, Italy

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote The Lost Girl?

The Lost Girl was written by D. H. Lawrence and first published in 1920.

What genre is The Lost Girl?

It is usually shelved as Circus & Carnival and Classic Love Stories.

How long is The Lost Girl?

The median edition has 378 pages, about 6–7 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

Is The Lost Girl free to read?

Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.

What books are similar to The Lost Girl?

Readers who like it often enjoy Great Expectations, The Return of the Native and Sense and Sensibility.

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