Mr. Noon (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence) (The Complete Novels of D. H. Lawrence 11 Volume Paperback Set) (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

by D H Lawrence

Lindeth Vasey (Editor)

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.

• ISBN10: 0586052453
• ISBN13: 9780586052457
• Publish Date: 23 October 1986 (first published 13 September 1984)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 10 March 1994
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Grafton
• Edition: New edition
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 400
• Language: English