Mr Noon
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: VG. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Tight and secure.
Few writers have mapped the terrain of human desire and social transgression with the fierce clarity of D.H. Lawrence, and Mr Noon stands as one of his most audacious and underappreciated works. The novel chronicles the misadventures of Gilbert Noon, a young Midlands schoolteacher who abandons the grey constraints of English provincial life for a passionate and reckless romance on the Continent, tracing a journey that mirrors Lawrence's own elopement with Frieda Weekley across pre-war Europe. Blending sardonic comedy with raw emotional intensity, the narrative is at once a roman à clef and a bracingly unconventional love story. Edited by Lindeth Vasey as part of the authoritative Cambridge Edition of the Works of D.H. Lawrence, this text presents the novel in its most scholarly and complete form, restoring Lawrence's original intentions with meticulous editorial rigour. Lawrence's voice here is characteristically uncompromising — by turns playful, provocative, and penetrating — as he interrogates bourgeois morality, sexual freedom, and the nature of authentic selfhood. Left unfinished at the time of his death and only published posthumously, Mr Noon remains a tantalising glimpse into what Lawrence might have achieved had he returned to complete it, leaving the reader to wonder at the roads not taken.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Cambridge University Press
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: VG. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Tight and secure.
Few writers have mapped the terrain of human desire and social transgression with the fierce clarity of D.H. Lawrence, and Mr Noon stands as one of his most audacious and underappreciated works. The novel chronicles the misadventures of Gilbert Noon, a young Midlands schoolteacher who abandons the grey constraints of English provincial life for a passionate and reckless romance on the Continent, tracing a journey that mirrors Lawrence's own elopement with Frieda Weekley across pre-war Europe. Blending sardonic comedy with raw emotional intensity, the narrative is at once a roman à clef and a bracingly unconventional love story. Edited by Lindeth Vasey as part of the authoritative Cambridge Edition of the Works of D.H. Lawrence, this text presents the novel in its most scholarly and complete form, restoring Lawrence's original intentions with meticulous editorial rigour. Lawrence's voice here is characteristically uncompromising — by turns playful, provocative, and penetrating — as he interrogates bourgeois morality, sexual freedom, and the nature of authentic selfhood. Left unfinished at the time of his death and only published posthumously, Mr Noon remains a tantalising glimpse into what Lawrence might have achieved had he returned to complete it, leaving the reader to wonder at the roads not taken.