Mr Noon is a sardonic tale about the amorous adventures of Gilbert Noon, a young schoolmaster in Lawrence's home county of Nottinghamshire who gets entangled with a girl, loses his job, and decides to leave the country to escape the narrow provincial middle-class morality. It was first known as a long story posthumously published in A Modern Lover (1934) and collected in the volume called Phoenix II (1968). Lawrence in fact wrote a long continuation of the novel, but the manuscript disappeared for many years. The Cambridge edition brought the two parts together for the first time. It is like a sequel to Sons and Lovers, but much more straightforwardly autobiographical. The publication of the complete work added a new work of major importance to the canon of a great writer, and was widely hailed as a major literary event.
ISBN: | 9780521272476 |
Publication date: | 21st May 1987 |
Author: | D. H. Lawrence |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 420 pages |
Series: | The Complete Novels of D. H. Lawrence 11 Volume Paperback Set |
Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |