Mr Noon

Mr Noon is an autobiographical novel – more or less a sequel to Sons and Lovers.

D. H. Lawrence (Author), Lindeth Vasey (Edited by)

9780521272476, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 21 May 1987

420 pages, 3 maps
21.5 x 14.8 x 2.7 cm, 0.53 kg

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.

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

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