The Letters of D. H. Lawrence (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: March 22, 1927-November 14, 1928
- Setting: Villa Mirenda, near Florence, Italy; Austria; Germany; Switzerland; and Ile de Port- Cros, near Toulon, France
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Traveling or travelers, Socialism, France or French people, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, 1920’s, England or English people, Adultery, Creative process, Health, Mexico or Mexicans, Letters, Censorship, Tuberculosis, Fascism, Pornography
- Locales: France, Mexico, Paris, France, England, New Mexico, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Bavaria, Austria, Baden-Baden, Germany
The 768 letters in this volume bring to 4,749 the total published in the new Cambridge University Press edition of D. H. Lawrence’s correspondence. When the seventh and final volume appears, more than 5,600 letters will be available, almost half of which were previously unpublished. Like its predecessors, volume 6 is handsomely produced and graced by such useful editorial aids as a detailed chronology, maps, period photographs, notes on obscure references and foreign phrases, an excellent introduction, and a carefully prepared index. Indispensable to scholars, this edition will only...
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