T. E. LAWRENCE
Thomas Edward Lawrence.
Born on 16 August 1888 at Tremadog, Carnarvonshire, Wales.
Died on 19 May 1935 at Bovington Camp, Dorset, England.
Wikipedia: English,
French.
Categories: Autobiography,
Other Non-Fiction,
Translations,
Correspondence,
Reference.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Text I (manuscript, 1919).
First draft of Seven pillars of wisdom. If completed, it would have been about 250,000 words. Lost at Reading railway station in December 1919, except for the introduction and books 9 and 10.
Text II: The Arab revolt (manuscript, 1920).
About 400,000 words. Rewriting of Text I. Deemed improper for publication by Lawrence.
Text III: Seven pillars of wisdom (Oxford text, 1921–1922).
335,566 words. Polished version of The Arab revolt, completed in February 1922. Printed in eight copies. Published in 1997.
French: Les sept piliers de la sagesse (Éric Chédaille, 2009).
Seven pillars of wisdom: A triumph (subscribers’ text, 1926).
250,597 words. Abridged version of the text of 1922. Published on 1 December 1926 as a private subscription edition of about 200 copies. Published commercially in 1935 after Lawrence’s death.
English: 1937.
French: Les sept piliers de la sagesse : Un triomphe (Charles Mauron, 1936);
• Les sept piliers de la sagesse (Julien Deleuze, 1992, ed. 1998);
• Les sept piliers de la sagesse : Un triomphe (Jean Rosenthal, 1993);
• Les sept piliers de la sagesse : Un triomphe (Renée Guillaume and André Guillaume, 1995).
Revolt in the desert (1927).
About 130,000 words. Abridged version of the subscribers’ edition of Seven pillars of wisdom. Published in March 1927.
English: 1927;
c. 1929.
French: La révolte dans le désert (B. Mayra and Georges Couderc de Fonlongue, 1928).
The mint (1936).
Subtitle: Notes made in the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922, and at Cadet College in 1925, by 352087 A/c ROSS, regrouped and copied in 1927 and 1928 at Aircraft Depot, Karachi. Published in a limited edition by Doubleday and Doran, New York, around November 1936, to ensure copyright. Published commercially in 1955 in an expurgated edition, and in a limited, uncensored edition.
English: 1955 (expurgated).
French: La matrice (René Étiemble, 1955).
Created on 20 February 2024. Updated on 23 February 2024.
