Kangaroo

A critical edition of Kangaroo, D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia.

D. H. Lawrence (Author), Bruce Steele (Edited by)

9780521007115, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 April 2002

552 pages, 3 maps
21.7 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.76 kg

Kangaroo is D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia. He wrote the first draft in just forty-five days while living south of Sydney, in 1922, and revised it three months later in New Mexico. The descriptions of the country are vivid and sympathetic and the book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of political ideas at an immensely personal level. Based on a collation of the manuscript, typescripts and first editions, this text of Kangaroo is closest to what Lawrence would have expected to see in print. There is a full textual apparatus of variants, a comprehensive introduction giving the background and history of composition and publication and a summary of contemporary reviewers' opinions. Explanatory notes elucidate the many geographical, political and literary allusions in the text; there are three maps and an appendix detailing Australian locations.

General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Cue-titles
Introduction
Kangaroo
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
Appendix
A note on pounds, shillings and pence.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]