The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

by D. H. Lawrence , Edited by James T. Boulton

• ISBN13: 9780521777995
• ISBN10: 0521777992
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

An authoritative selection of letters by one of the great English letter-writers is here published for the first time in paperback. 'James T. Boulton, the chief editor of [the] definitive collection [of Lawrence's letters] has now condensed from it an admirable 500-pages worth of The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence. Section by section introductions, summary biographies of correspondents, and illuminating explanatory footnotes equip the reader to follow the contours of Lawrence's adult life as he progresses from teacher in Croydon to suspected German spy in Cornwall during the Great War, to wanderer in self-imposed exile in Australia, the US and Mexico, and finally consumptive, dying in Provence.' Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph 'Five thousand letters cram the eight-volume Cambridge edition of Lawrence's correspondence. So this selection, representing the full range of Lawrence's influential acquaintance, is welcome. Angry, combative, scurrilous, the letters are also sometimes uniquely lyrical.' Independent on Sunday

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Biographical list of correspondents	xii
Introduction	xxv
Letters
The Formative Years, 1885--1913	1	(60)
The Rainbow and Women in Love, 1913--1916	61	(78)
Cornwall and Italy, 1916--1921	139	(74)
Eastwards to the New World, 1921--1924	213	(58)
New Mexico, Mexico and Italy, 1924--1927	271	(70)
Europe and Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1927--1928	341	(76)
Decline and Death, 1928--1930	417	(75)
Index	492