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The Complete 1922 "Seven Pillars of Wisdom": 'The Oxford Text' [Hardcover]

T.E. Lawrence (Author), Jeremy Michael Wilson (Editor), Nicole Wilson (Editor)
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5.0 out of 5 stars 1922 Complete Oxford Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Feb 12 2012
This review is from: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph: The Complete 1922 Text (Paperback)
Holy smokes GBM "ardent reader!!
Wake up! If you did the smallest amount of research about Lawrence and the history of Seven Pillars, you'd know that this unedited unproofed text is an historical gem.
1919: the first draft:
Lawrence almost completed a first draft in 1919. Late that year, however, his briefcase was stolen while he was changing trains at Reading Station. In it were the Seven Pillars manuscript and some important wartime notes. Despite press reports, nothing was recovered.
1920: the book is rewritten:
Early in 1920 Lawrence hurriedly wrote out a second version, recreating the book from memory while it was fresh in his mind. The result, over 400,000 words, was reasonably complete but "hopelessly bad as a text". By 1922 Lawrence had rewritten Seven Pillars, checking it wherever he could against contemporary sources. He dreamed that the new version, much more polished than the original, might rank in world literature alongside Moby Dick and The Brothers Karamazof. Later he gave this 1922 manuscript, running to nearly 335,000 words, to the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
1922: the Oxford Times printing
Wishing to circulate the 1922 text among friends and literary critics, he had it typeset at the printing works of the Oxford Times newspaper. To prevent the printers there assembling the book, he sent the chapters in random order. Eight sets of the chapters were printed on a proofing press. As he couldn't afford corrections, they contained innumerable errors.
Lawrence corrected five sets of the proof printing (and later a sixth) and had them bound. In his own copy he made further amendments in response to readers' comments. In May 2001 a collector paid nearly a million dollars for it, at Christies New York.
Those privileged to read the 1922 version (soon dubbed the 'Oxford Text') were extraordinarily impressed. In a private letter to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Bernard Shaw wrote: "The Work is a masterpiece, one of the few very best of its kind in the world."
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Seven Pillars "rough draft", Nov 13 2011
By Mark Twain - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete 1922 "Seven Pillars of Wisdom": 'The Oxford Text' (Hardcover)
As I pointed out elsewhere, this 1922 Oxford text of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, is Lawrence's privately printed (only 8 copies!) first published version, for the purpose of sending to various people involved in the Arab Revolt for their corrections and/or approval. As it is, without additional proofing, this version is of historical interest as Lawrence's relatively uncensored telling of what happened. If you are looking for a good read, use the 1935 edition or Lawrence's abridged version under the name "Revolt in the Desert."

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1.0 out of 5 stars Seven Pillars of Wisdom, May 22 2011
By GBM "ardent reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete 1922 "Seven Pillars of Wisdom": 'The Oxford Text' (Hardcover)
This edition of this extraordinary work of literature is a travesty. It has not been proofread for typesetting errors, for textual errors, for anything, as far as I am able to tell. This edition SHOULD be unavailable; it is a shameful and cheap attempt to profit unjustly from an extraordinary literary achievement accomplished by someone else. I was shocked and saddened to see such shoddy work, and dismayed to see it on Amazon.
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