Kangaroo (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521007119 ISBN 13: 9780521007115

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Kangaroo is D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia. He wrote the first draft in just forty-five days while living south of Sydney, in 1922, and revised it three months later in New Mexico. The descriptions of the country are vivid and sympathetic and the book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of political ideas at an immensely personal level. Based on a collation of the manuscript, typescripts and first editions, this text of Kangaroo is closest to what Lawrence would have expected to see in print. There is a full textual apparatus of variants, a comprehensive introduction giving the background and history of composition and publication and a summary of contemporary reviewers' opinions. Explanatory notes elucidate the many geographical, political and literary allusions in the text; there are three maps and an appendix detailing Australian locations.

About this title

Review:

"Presented in high editorial style." Frank Kermode, London Review of Books

Book Description:

A critical edition of Kangaroo, D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521007119
• ISBN 13: 9780521007115
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 552
• Editor: Steele Bruce