The Lost Girl

This edition of The Lost Girl offers a text corresponding to Lawrence's expectations.

D. H. Lawrence (Author), John Worthen (Edited by)

9780521294232, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 September 1981

488 pages, 1 map
21.6 x 13.8 x 3 cm, 0.66 kg

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.

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

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