The Lost Girl

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Lost Girl
Authors and Contributors      By (author) D. H. Lawrence
Edited by John Worthen
SeriesThe Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:488
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780521294232
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 1 Maps

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 30 September 1981
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The Cambridge edition of The Lost Girl uses the manuscript which D. H. Lawrence wrote in Sicily in 1920 to recapture his direct relationship with the text, and in particular to recover the characteristically fluent punctuation which the novel's original printers obscured or ignored. The edition prints all four of the passages which the publisher censored without Lawrence's full knowledge and the hero's name is correctly spelled for the first time in an English edition. The novel is set mainly in the Eastwood of Lawrence's youth, the full annotation identifies a great many real-life characters and settings. John Worthen's introduction gives an accurate account of The Lost Girl's development, composition and publication, and the influence upon the book of Lawrence's desire to write a commercially successful novel. The textual apparatus records all variant readings.