Mr Noon; The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence

Lawrence, D. H. and Lindeth Vasey, editor

ISBN 10: 0521252512 / ISBN 13: 9780521252515

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1984

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Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mr Noon; The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521252512
• ISBN 13: 9780521252515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
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Synopsis

Mr Noon is a sardonic tale about the amorous adventures of Gilbert Noon, a young schoolmaster in Lawrence's home county of Nottinghamshire who gets entangled with a girl, loses his job, and decides to leave the country to escape the narrow provincial middle-class morality. It was first known as a long story posthumously published in A Modern Lover (1934) and collected in the volume called Phoenix II (1968). Lawrence in fact wrote a long continuation of the novel, but the manuscript disappeared for many years. The Cambridge edition brought the two parts together for the first time. It is like a sequel to Sons and Lovers, but much more straightforwardly autobiographical. The publication of the complete work added a new work of major importance to the canon of a great writer, and was widely hailed as a major literary event.

Book Description

This is an autobiographical novel - more or less a sequel to Sons and Lovers. The first part appeared as a short story in 1934; the second, larger part was never published. Mr Noon was first published in its entirety in 1984, and was widely hailed as a major literary event.