| Women in Love Revised Edition Contributor(s): Lawrence, D. H. (Author), Farmer, David H. (Editor), Worthen, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521280419 ISBN-13: 9780521280419 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1987 Annotation: D. H. Lawrence??'s Women in Love - ???the beginning of a new world???, as he called it - suffered in the course of its revision, transcription, and publication some of the most spectacular damage ever inflicted upon one of his books. Until now no text of Women in Love has ever been published which is faithful to all of Lawrence??'s revisions. This edition, edited by scholars in England and America, clears the text of literally thousands of accumulated errors allowing its readers to read and understand the novelist??'s work as he himself created it. The edition includes the ???Foreword??? Lawrence wrote in 1919 and two preliminary and discarded chapters which have attracted widespread critical and biographical discussion. The introduction gives a full history of the novel??'s composition, revision, publication and reception, and notes explain allusions and references; the textual apparatus records all variants between the base-text and the first printed editions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 85031367 |
| Lexile Measure: 920 |
| Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence |
| Physical Information: 1.69" H x 5.62" W x 8.58" (2.03 lbs) 696 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love - 'the beginning of a new world', as he called it - suffered in the course of its revision, transcription, and publication some of the most spectacular damage ever inflicted upon one of his books. Until now no text of Women in Love has ever been published which is faithful to all of Lawrence's revisions. This edition, edited by scholars in England and America, clears the text of literally thousands of accumulated errors allowing its readers to read and understand the novelist's work as he himself created it. The edition includes the 'Foreword' Lawrence wrote in 1919 and two preliminary and discarded chapters which have attracted widespread critical and biographical discussion. The introduction gives a full history of the novel's composition, revision, publication and reception, and notes explain allusions and references; the textual apparatus records all variants between the base-text and the first printed editions. |