D.H. LAWRENCE THE EARLY YEARS 1885-1912 by [ Lawrence, D.H.]: Worthen, John - 1991

London: Grafton, 1988. 175 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "All the stories in this volume appear in new, authoritative texts based on manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs and early printings drawn from libraries and private collections in England, Italy and America. Whole phrases and sentences missing from previously published texts of 'New Eve and Old Adam' are now printed; a previously unknown manuscript of 'Love Among the Haystacks' provides the text of that story and a previously unpublished typescript is used for the text of 'Delilah and Mr Bircumshaw'. All the stories have thus been stripped of the layers of errors introduced by typists, editors and printers in their previous publication." Contents: Introduction; A Prelude; A Lesson on a Tortoise; Lessford's Rabbits; A Modern Lover; The Fly in the Ointment; The Witch a la Mode; The Old Adam; Love Among the Haystacks; The Miner at Home; Her Turn; Strike-Pay; Delilah and Mr. Bircumshaw; Once --!; New Eve… Read More