The plumed serpent, Quetzalcoatl
D. H. Lawrence, William York Tindall (Writer of introduction)
The novel has a contemporary setting during the period of the Mexican Revolution. It opens with a group of tourists visiting a bullfight in Mexico City. One of them, Kate Leslie, departs in disgust and encounters Don Cipriano, a Mexican general. Later she meets his friend, intellectual land-owner Don Ramon, and travels to Sayula, a small town set on a lake. Ramon and Cipriano are leading a revival of a pre-Christian religion and Kate becomes drawn into their cult
Print Book, English, 1951
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1951