Aaron's Rod: Cambridge Lawrence Edition; Revised (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.; Kalnins, Mara; Vine, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140188142 ISBN 13: 9780140188141

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

Based on the only authoritative surviving manuscript of the 1921 novel, this Cambridge edition restores many passages censored from previous editions in its depiction of Everyman's quest for a meaningful existence.

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Book Description:

Written in the years following the First World War, Aaron's Rod questions many of the accepted social and political institutions of Lawrence's generation. The Cambridge edition of the novel, based on the only authoritative surviving typescript, restores these cut passages and eliminates the errors and house-styling of previous editions.

From the Back Cover:

Abandoning his wife and children, Aaron Sisson leaves the mining community in pursuit of the 'life single': individual freedom, personal friendship, the 'male power' of passion and art. Playing the flute to pay his way he travels to post-war London, where he mixes with the modern Bohemian set and finds male friendship in Rawdon Lilly. Further travels take him to Milan and Florence ('a town of men') preoccupied with thoughts on the decline of humanity from the Renaissance to the modern age. For Aaron, in his own way, is striving to save civilization. Aaron's Rod was completed in 1921 but was then censored by Lawrence's publishers. This edition of the novel, based on the only authoritative surviving typescript, restores these cut passages and eliminates the errors of previous editions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140188142
• ISBN 13: 9780140188141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368