Paul Morel

The early version of twentieth-century classic Sons and Lovers, containing scenes and ideas later discarded.

D. H. Lawrence (Author), Helen Baron (Edited by)

9780521560092, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 September 2003

384 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.64 kg

'Helen Baron's editorial work is, as usual with this series, impeccable.' English Studies

This is the first ever edition of the early version of Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's highly popular autobiographical novel. Amongst all the surviving early drafts of Lawrence's works this is the most different from the final version; as he rewrote, Lawrence discarded many episodes, some of them stories from his childhood not recorded anywhere else. It is less polished than Sons and Lovers, but it is full of powerful, spontaneous, dramatic writing: there is more humour and charm, more raw violence and nervous energy. This volume also contains remarkable documents written by Lawrence's girlfriend Jessie Chambers, the model for Miriam in Paul Morel and in Sons and Lovers, in which she gives Lawrence some hostile criticisms and writes out for him her own versions of some of his episodes. In addition there is a fragment of a novel about his mother's childhood, facsimiles of manuscript pages, maps, and scholarly notes and apparatus.

General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Cue-titles
Introduction
Paul Morel
Appendix 1. 'Matilda'
Appendix 2. Chapter plan
Appendix 3. Two versions of the start of MS3
Appendix 4. MS3 chapter 9 annotated by Jessie Chambers
Appendix 5. Jessie Chambers' manuscripts
Explanatory notes
Maps
Textual apparatus
Line-end hyphenation
Note on pounds, shillings and pence.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]