Mr. Noon

by Lawrence, D. H.; Vasey, Lindeth; Preston, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780140189735
• ISBN10: 0140189734
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

Mr Noon is an autobiographical novel - more or less a sequel to Sons and Lovers.

Author Biography

The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.

Table of Contents

Note on the Penguin Lawrence Edition	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Chronology	ix
Introduction	xv
Note on the Text	xxxix
Advisory Editor's Note	xlii
Mr Noon	1	(300)
Appendices
I. Biographical and Geographical Re-creations	293	(5)
II. Maps	298	(3)
Explanatory Notes	301	(13)
Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases	314	(4)
Further Reading	318