LOVE AMONG THE HAYSTACKS contains 14 stories ranging from Lawrence’s earliest surviving published story, ‘A Prelude’, to ‘New Eve and Old Adam’ which was written at the height of his early maturity in 1913.
Each story in this edition appears in a new, authoritative text based on the manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs and early printings drawn from libraries and private collections in England, Italy and America. All the stories have thus been stripped of the layers of errors introduced by typists, editors and printers in their previous publication.
John Worthen’s introduction sets out the composition and publication history of each story, and gives a full account of the context in which it was created. A textual apparatus records all variant readings and explanatory notes explain allusions, dialect forms and foreign words.
