The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

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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"...what a continuously useful, revealing, clarifying set of facts, insights and sidelights--literary, critical, biographical--is provided by this magnificent haul of 5,534 letters in these stupendously well edited volumes. This collection, surely, ranks among the very best gatherings of modern literary letters. All praise to the Cambridge University Press and to James T. Boulton--who has had a hand in each volume--and to Keith Sagar, who has joined Boulton in steering Volume Seven, 1928-30 along." Valentine Cunningham, Times Literary Supplement

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Product details

• Date Published: June 2002
• format: Paperback
• isbn: 9780521006996
• length: 732 pages

• dimensions: 219 x 129 x 46 mm
• weight: 1.03kg
• contains: 19 b/w illus. 4 maps
• availability: Available