THE PLUMED SERPENT
THE WORKS OF D. H. LAWRENCE
THIN-PAPER EDITION
The White Peacock
The Trespasser
Sons and Lovers
The Prussian Officer
The Rainbow
The Lost Girl
Women in Love
Aaron’s Rod
The Ladybird
Kangaroo
England, my England
The Boy in the Bush
St. Mawr
The Plumed Serpent
The Woman Who Rode Away
The Virgin and the Gipsy
The Man Who Died
The Lovely Lady
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Love Among the Haystacks
Sea and Sardinia
Assorted Articles
Mornings in Mexico
Twilight in Italy
Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious
Fantasia of the Unconscious
A Modern Lover
THE
PLUMED SERPENT
BY D. H. LAWRENCE
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD
First published January 1926
Reprinted March 1926, January 1927, February 1928
March 1930, March 1932, October 1933, April 1937
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
AT THE WINDMILL PRESS, KINGSWOOD, SURREY
CONTENTS
| CHAP: | PAGE | |
| I. | BEGINNINGS OF A BULL-FIGHT | [7] |
| II. | TEA-PARTY IN TLACOLULA | [26] |
| III. | FORTIETH BIRTHDAY | [52] |
| IV. | TO STAY OR NOT TO STAY | [77] |
| V. | THE LAKE | [87] |
| VI. | THE MOVE DOWN THE LAKE | [106] |
| VII. | THE PLAZA | [120] |
| VIII. | NIGHT IN THE HOUSE | [142] |
| IX. | CASA DE LA CUENTAS | [149] |
| X. | DON RAMÓN AND DOÑA CARLOTA | [165] |
| XI. | LORDS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT | [181] |
| XII. | THE FIRST WATERS | [194] |
| XIII. | THE FIRST RAIN | [204] |
| XIV. | HOME TO SAYULA | [221] |
| XV. | THE WRITTEN HYMNS OF QUETZALCOATL | [236] |
| XVI. | CIPRIANO AND KATE | [245] |
| XVII. | FOURTH HYMN AND THE BISHOP | [264] |
| XVIII. | AUTO DA FE | [287] |
| XIX. | THE ATTACK ON JAMILTEPEC | [308] |
| XX. | MARRIAGE BY QUETZALCOATL | [327] |
| XXI. | THE OPENING OF THE CHURCH | [355] |
| XXII. | THE LIVING HUITZILOPOCHTLI | [377] |
| XXIII. | HUITZILOPOCHTLI’S NIGHT | [398] |
| XXIV. | MALINTZI | [413] |
| XXV. | TERESA | [422] |
| XXVI. | KATE IS A WIFE | [443] |
| XXVII. | HERE! | [456] |