A new edition of D.H. Lawrence 's classic novel, originally published in 1923. Kangaroo is set in Australia and based on some of Lawrence's personal experiences during a three month visit to New South Wales with his wife in the early 1920s. Kangaroo is the story of an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife Harriet visiting Australia and the people they encounter on the fringe of Australian politics, including Benjamin Cooley (the titular "Kangaroo") who is the leader of the Digger movement, while coming to terms with their own memories of the first world war. Kangaroo is remembered today as one of the "sharpest fictional visions" of Australia as a country and Australians as a people and as an inspiration for the development of the Jindyworobak Movement, an Australian literary movement of the 1930s and 1940s whose white members sought to contribute to a uniquely Australian culture through the integration of Indigenous Australian subjects, language and mythology. D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was an influential English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, and painter. His unique and individualistic style of writing has earned him a place among the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, to a coal miner and a schoolteacher. He attended Nottingham High School and then University College, Nottingham, where he studied modern languages and literature. After graduating, Lawrence worked as a schoolteacher for a short time before moving to London to pursue a career as a writer. Throughout his career, Lawrence wrote numerous novels, poems, essays, and plays. His most famous works include Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), and The Plumed Serpent (1926). Lawrence's works explore social and psychological themes related to industrialism, class, sexuality, and the individual's relationship with nature. Lawrence's works were highly controversial during his lifetime and he was often criticized for his frank treatment of sexual and psychological themes. Despite the controversy, his works have been widely read and appreciated by readers around the world. Lawrence's legacy as an important writer and thinker continues to this day. He is often considered one of the most important modernists of the twentieth century.