The Letters of D. H. Lawrence VOL. VII 1928-30 (The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of D. H. Lawrence) - Hardcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521231167 ISBN 13: 9780521231169

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This volume contains almost all the 763 letters Lawrence wrote in the last fifteen months of his life with an introduction, maps, notes, illustrations, chronology and index. Lawrence corresponded with publishers and agents, regarding Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Escaped Cock and Pansies. He wrote no new fiction, but there were paintings, poems, essays, newspaper articles, and his last work Apocalypse. There were dramatic episodes with the seizure of his Pansies manuscript, and the police raid on the exhibition of his paintings at a London gallery, with its subsequent trial.

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Book Description:

This volume contains the letters D. H. Lawrence wrote in the last fifteen months of his life. Despite his failing strength, Lawrence was in constant communication with publishers and agents, and continued to write to his sisters and friends. The volume includes an introduction, maps, illustrations, chronology and index.

From Library Journal:

Lawrence wrote the 763 letters in this volume in the last 15 months of his life. Most of the letters are previously unpublished; many more are available only in incomplete texts. A large number concern "business," and Lawrence's poor health noticeably saps his energy. The letters are also shadowed by Lawrence's growing awareness that he would die before reaching his 45th birthday. Still, the characteristic Lawrentian spirit is here in abundance. The letters are masterfully but unobtrusively edited by Sagar and Boulton, two English academics. It's fair to say that they know more about Lawrence's life than he knew himself. Volume 8 will mainly provide a comprehensive index to the over 5500 letters of the first seven volumes. This edition of Lawrence's letters will stand as a monument of modern literary scholarship; all research collections should own it.
- Keith Cushman, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521231167
• ISBN 13: 9780521231169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 713
• Editor: Sagar Keith, Boulton James T.