Volume 31, Number 16 · October 25, 1984
His Angry Way
By V.S. Pritchett
Mr Noon University Press
by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Lindeth Vasey
Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D.H. Lawrence, Cambridge, 370 pp., $24.95
A novelist has his winners in the stable, but what happens to those that go lame and never finish the course? There is the semi-mystery of a short novel, Mr Noon, which D.H. Lawrence began in 1920 following The Lost Girl, The White Peacock, The Rainbow, and Sons and Lovers: it seems he was alternating with work on Aaron's Rod. But Mr Noon was put aside by Lawrence or rejected by publishers and was not published until 1934, four years after his death, in a left-over collection of stories called A Modern Lover and, in 1968, in the collection of other pieces in Phoenix II.
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