Oct 14, 2008
The Letters of D. H. Lawrence | The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: November 16, 1928-February 27, 1930
- Setting: Bandol, on the south coast of France; Paris; Majorca; Forte dei Marmi, Italy; Baden-Baden,
Germany; Rottach, Bavaria; Vence, 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
With the publication of this seventh volume, 5,534 pieces of correspondence have appeared in
the monumental Cambridge edition of D. H. Lawrence’s letters. (An eighth volume
containing addenda, corrections, and a comprehensive index has been announced.) Written between
1901 and 1930, certain of the letters have long been highlighted in accounts of Lawrence’s
life and thought. Earlier general editions of the correspondence appeared in 1932 and 1962, but
together they contained only about one-fourth of the extant letters, and many of these in incomplete
or inaccurate texts sometimes...
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