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One of D.H. Lawrence’s last novels, The Man Who Died (1929), originally published as The Escaped Cock, is the story of the death and resurrection of Christ, and the agonizing journey he must make to return from death to life. A work of passion and intensity, it mingles the sacred and the profane, traveling far beyond the traditional Christian interpretation of Christ’s life and death. It is a novel that demonstrates, above all, the extraordinary vision of Lawrence and his fear for mankind. About the Author D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, essayist and critic. His works, noted for their richness of language and deep sensuality, were often controversial during his time. Lawrence died young, at the age of forty-five, but he left behind him an extraordinary body of work, amongst them, Sons and Lovers (1913), Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) and The Virgin and the Gypsy (1930).