D.H. Lawrence
The White Peacock
Hardcover
(Duckworth Sept. 3, 1924)
, 3rd prt. edition
First person story . George love Lettie, the proud white peacock. After flirting with George for years, Lettie marries Leslie Tempest a wealthy young man. The disappointed George, after some success as a horsetrader, as a man of property and as a dabbler in politics, falls at last into a condition of physical and spiritual decay.