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PENGUIN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CLASSICS
APOCALYPSE
AND THE WRITINGS ON REVELATION
David Herbert Lawrence was born into a miner's family in Eastwood,
Nottinghamshire, in 1883, the fourth, of five children. He attended
Beauvale Board School and Nottingham High School, and trained as an
elementary schoolteacher at Nottingham University College. He taught
in Croydon from 1908. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published
in 19I1, just a few weeks after the death of his mother to whom he had
been extraordinarily close. His career as a schoolteacher was ended by
serious illness at the end of Pp 1.
In 1912 Lawrence went to Germany with Frieda Weekley, the German
wife of the Professor of Modem Languages at the University College of
Nottingham. They were married on their return to England in 1914.
Lawrence had liublished Sons and Lovers in 1913; but The Rainbow,
completed in 1913, was suppressed, and for three years he could not find
a publisher for Women in Love, completed in 1917.
After the war, Lawrence lived abroad, and sought a more fulfilling mode
of life than he had so far experienced. With Frieda, he lived in Sicily, Sri
Lanka, Australia, New Mexico and Mexico. They returnedniturope in
1923. His last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was published in 1928 but
was banned in England and America. In 1930 he died in Vence, in the
south of France, at the age of forty-four.
Lawrence's life may have been short, but he lived it intensely. He also
produced an amazing body of work: novels, stories, poems, plays, essays,
travel books, translations, paintings and letters (over five thousand of
which survive). After his death Frieda wrote that, 'What he had seen and
felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow men, the splendour of
living, the hope Of more and more life . .. a heroic and immeasurable
gift.'
Dr Mara ICalnins is Fellow in English at Corpus Christi College and
Staff Tutor in Literature for the Board of Continuing Education,
University of Cambridge. She has written widely on D. H. Lawrence and
edited a collection of critical essays for his centenary year as well as a
selection of his poetry. She has also edited three volumes for the
definitive Cambridge edition of his works,
John Worthen is advisory editor for the works of D. H. Lawrence in
Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. Currently Professor of, D. H.
Lawrence Studies at the University of Nottingham, he has published
widely on Lawrence; his acclaimed biography, D. H. Lawrence: The
Early Years 1885-1912, was published in 1991. He has also edited a
number of volumes in the authoritative Cambridge Lawrence Edition
whose texts Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics are reproducing.
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D. H. LAWRENCE
APOCALYPSE
AND THE WRITINGS ON REVELATION
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND
NOTES BY MARA KALNINS
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Contents -
Note on the Penguin Lawrence Edition 3
Chronology 5
Introduction II
Note on the Texts 33
Advisory Editor's Note 35
A Review ofThe Book of Revelation
by Dr. John Oman 39
Introduction to The Dragon of the Apocalypse
by Frederick Carter 43
Apocalypse 57
Appendixes
I Apocalypse, Fragment I 553
II Apocalypse, Fragment 2. 177
III Apocalypsis II '95.
Explanatory Notes 201
Further Reading 225
Note on the Penguin Lawrence Edition
D. H. Lawrence stands in the very front rank of English writers this
century; unlike some other famous writers, however, he has always
appealed to a large popular audience as well as to students of
literature, and his work still arouses passionate loyalties and fervent
disagreements. The available texts of his books have, nevertheless,
been notoriously inaccurate. The Penguin Lawrence Edition uses the
authoritative texts of Lawrence's work established by an international
team of scholars engaged on the Cambridge Edition of the Works
of D. H Lawrence under its General Editors, Professor James T.
Boulton and Professor Warren Roberts. Through rigorous study of
surviving manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and early printings the
Cambridge editors have provided texts as close as possible to those
which Lawrence himself would have expected to see printed. Dele-
tions deliberately made by printers, publishers or their editors,
accidentally by typists and printers — at times removing whole pages
of text — have been restored, while house-styling introduced by
printers is removed as far as is possible. The Penguin Lawrence
Edition thus offers both general readers and students the only texts
of Lawrence which have any claim to be the authentic productions
of his genius.
