A radical criticism of our civilization and statement of unwavering belief in man’s power to create "a new heaven and a new earth," Apocalypse is D. H. Lawrence’s last book, written while he was dying. His final attempt to explain his vision of man, God, and the universe, his writings range over religion, art, psychology, and politics.
ABOUT THE SERIES "The Cambridge edition… has restored—perhaps created—texts which are authoritative enough to stand for another fifty years." (Literary Review)
D. H. Lawrence is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—yet the texts of his writings, whether published during his lifetime or since, are textually corrupt. He was forced to accept the often-stringent house-styling of his printers, not to mention intrusive editing due to his publishers’ timidity.
A team of scholars at Cambridge University Press has worked for more than thirty years to restore the definitive texts of D. H. Lawrence. The Cambridge Edition provides texts of all of his works, which are as close as can now be determined to those he would have wished to see printed.
The texts are established through rigorous collation of all extant materials, from draft manuscripts to first book publication, identifying errors made by copyists, typists and printers; house-styling by printers; and censorship and bowdlerization by publishers.
The Cambridge Editions were published between 1979 and 2011. This is the first time they have been available in eBook form.
D. H. Lawrence wrote these essays between 1915–1925, calling them "philosophicalish" and covering topics ranging from politics to nature, and from religion to education. The tone varies from lighthearted humor to mordant wit to spiritual meditation. All the essays share many of the underlying themes of mature Lawrence: "Be thyself." As far as possible, editors have restored the essays to their original form as Lawrence wrote them, and the history of the essays is discussed. Several incomplete and unpublished essays are reproduced in an appendix.
D. H. Lawrence’s first collection of short stories, The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, was published in England in 1914, and contains some of his best works, chronicling accounts of the time and place—from old mining communities to pre–First World War Germany. This definitive edition of these writings presents Lawrence’s stories as he intended them. They have been cleaned of corruptions and errors, as well as providing a history of each story and of the whole collection.
