Mr noon

Mr noon is a sardonic tale about the amorous adventures of gilbert noon, a young schoolmaster in lawrence's home county of nottinghamshire who gets entangled with a girl, loses his job, and decides to leave the country to escape the narrow provincial middle-class morality. it was first known as a long story posthumously published in a modern lover (1934) and collected in the volume called phoenix ii (1968). lawrence in fact wrote a long continuation of the novel, but the manuscript disappeared for many years. the cambridge edition brought the two parts together for the first time. it is like a sequel to sons and lovers, but much more straightforwardly autobiographical. the publication of the complete work added a new work of major importance to the canon of a great writer, and was widely hailed as a major literary event.