Written during D. H. Lawrence’s stay on the American continent between 1922 and 1925.
They explore the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of liberation.
In St Mawr, Lou Witt buys a beautiful, untamable bay stallion and discovers an intense affinity with the horse that she cannot feel with her husband. This superb novella displays Lawrence’s mastery of satirical comedy in a scathing depiction of London’s fashionable horse riding set.
The Princess portrays the intimacy between an aloof woman and her male guide as she travels through New Mexico in search of new experiences.
The texts are newly edited from Lawrence’s original manuscripts and typescripts, eliminating mistranscriptions and unauthorised alterations made by publishers and printers for reasons of housestyling, fear of prosecution or moral censoriousness. In some cases whole lines of text, which have been omitted in the first and subsequent editions, have been restored. The textual apparatus records all variants. The introduction uses unpublished material to trace the genesis and reception of each work. The notes give the translation of foreign words, the explanation of classical, biblical, literary and historical references and the reasoning behind some of the more involved textual cruces.
