Thomas Edward Lawrence: Difference between revisions

From Citizendium
Jump to navigation Jump to search
imported>Aleksander Stos
m (typo)
imported>Gareth Leng
(→‎Bibliography: to subpage)
Line 18: Line 18:
<references/>
<references/>


==Bibliography==
===Bibliographies, reference works, exhibition 'catalogues', and short introductions===
* Brown, Malcolm. ''T. E. Lawrence.'' London: British Library, 2003. (A good short introduction.)
* Brown, Malcolm. ''Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, the Legend.'' London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. (Companion volume to the exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London, 2005-06; shorter than Wilsons volume for the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 1988, and 'easier' to read; also many illustrations.)
* O’Brien, Philip M. ''T. E. Lawrence: A Bibliography.'' 1988. 2nd revised and expanded edition. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. (A huge work; essential.)
* Tabachnick, Stephen E. ''Lawrence of Arabia: An Encyclopedia.''  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004. xxxviii + 248 pp. (Short articles with further reading on almost any person and subject of importance to Lawrence's life.)
* Wilson, Jeremy. ''T. E. Lawrence.'' London: National Portrait Gallery, 1988. (A biography in its own right; important because of its excellent illustrations and its maps; very rich in information.)
* Wilson, Jeremy. ''Lawrence of Arabia.'' Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1998. (A very short biography by the unquestioned Lawrence-expert and editor of his works and letters.)
===T. E. Lawrence's most important writings===
* With C. Leonard Wolley. ''The Wilderness of Zin: Archeological Report.'' With a chapter on the Greek inscriptions by M[arcus]. N. Tod. Palestine Exploration Fund, Annual, 3. London: Off. of the Fund, 1915. New edition, Preface by Jonathan Tubb, introduction by Sam T. Moorhead. London: Stacey International, 2003.
* ''Revolt in the Desert.'' London: Jonathan Cape / New York: George H. Doran, 1927. (Lawrence's abridgement of the ''Seven Pillars.'')
* ''Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.'' [First privately printed in 1926.] London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. (Many reprints.) Still available at Penguin Books.
* ''Crusader Castles.'' London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. (The best edition by Denys Pringle [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988]).
* ''Secret Despatches from Arabia.'' Ed. by Arnold W. Lawrence. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1939. New edition, ''Secret Despatches from Arabia and Other Writings.'' Ed. and introduced by Malcolm Brown. London: Bellew Publishing, 1991. Best edition, ''T. E. Lawrence in War and Peace.'' Edited by Malcolm Brown. Greenhill Books, 2005.
* ''Oriental Assembly.'' With photographs by the author. Ed. by Arnold W. Lawrence. London: Williams and Norgate, 1939. (Includes Lawrence's diary of his tour in 1911, which he undertook after the end of the excavation season; also the first chapter of the ''Seven Pillars'', which remained unpublished in 1935.) Facsimile edition with new introduction by Malcolm Brown. London: Imperial War Museum, 1991.
* ''The Mint [: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with Later Notes by 352087 A/c Ross.]'' London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. (Published posthumously; the first edition of the unexpurgated text was published in London by Jonathan Cape, 1973. Reprinted)
* ''Evolution of a Revolt.'' Ed. by Stanley and Rodelle Weintraub. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1968. (Good, but incomplete collection of Lawrence's post-war writings.)
* Wilson, Jeremy, ed. ''Minorities.'' Preface by C. Day Lewis. London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. (Lawrence's collection of his favorite poetry.)
* ''Lawrence of Arabia, Strange Man of Letters.'' Ed. By Harold Orlans. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993. (Letters, reviews and literary writings.)
* ''The Complete 1922 Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The ‘Oxford’ text.'' Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. 1997. Fordingbridge, Hampshire: J. and N. Wilson, 2004.
===Lawrence's translations===
* Corbeau, Adrien le. ''The Forest Giant.'' Translated by J. H. Ross [i.e. T. E. Lawrence]. London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. [The American edition was published in New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924.] London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1936.
* Homer. ''The Odyssey.'' Newly translated into English Prose by T. E. Lawrence. New York: Oxford University Press, 1932. [The British edition was published in 1935.] Translated from the Greek by T. E. Shaw. With an Introduction by Sir Maurice Bowra. London: Oxford University Press, 1955. With an introduction by Bernard M. W. Knox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
===Important letter editions===
* ''T. E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Robert Graves: Information about Himself, in the Form of Letters, Notes and Answers to Questions, Edited with a Critical Commentary'' [by Robert Graves]. London: Faber and Faber, 1938.
* ''T. E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Liddell Hart: Information about Himself, in the Form of Letters, Notes, Answers to Questions and Conversations.'' [Edited by Basil H. Liddell Hart.] London: Faber and Faber, 1938.
** (Both editions in one book reprinted, with original paging and an index:] ''T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers Robert Graves and Liddell Hart.'' London: Cassell 1963.
* ''The Letters of T. E. Lawrence.'' Edited by David Garnett. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. [Reprint edition:] With a Foreword by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. London: Spring Books, 1964.
* ''Shaw-Ede: T. E. Lawrence’s Letters to H. S. Ede, 1927-1935.'' Edited, with a Foreword and a Running Commentary by Harold Stanley Ede. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1942.
* ''The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers.'' [Edited by M. R. Lawrence.] Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954. (Important for the early years from 1906 to 1918; some expurgations by the editor, i.e. Lawrence's oldest brother.)
* Lawrence, Arnold W., ed. ''Letters to T. E. Lawrence.'' London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.
* ''Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds.'' Edited by Jeremy Wilson. Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1988.
* ''The Letters of T. E. Lawrence.'' Selected and edited by Malcolm Brown. London: Dent, 1988. Corrected edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. (A very good one-volume edition, supplements Garnett's one.)
* ''The Correspondence with Henry Williamson.'' Edited by Peter Wilson. Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 2000.
* ''Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926.'' [T. E. Lawrence, Letters, volume I] Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 2000.
* ''Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1927.'' [T. E. Lawrence, Letters, volume II] Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 2003.
===Biographies and special studies===
* Aldington, Richard. ''Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry.'' London: Collins, 1955. With an introduction by Christopher Sykes. London: Collins, 1969. (One of the most contemptuous biographies ever written; as such it indicates the elusiveness of Lawrence and reveals Aldington's disapproval of him.)
* Brown, Malcolm, and Julia Cave. ''A Touch of Genius: The Life of T. E. Lawrence.'' London: Dent, 1988. New York: Paragon House, 1989.
* Hyde, H[arford] Montgomery. ''Solitary in the Ranks: Lawrence of Arabia as Airman and Private Soldier.'' London: Constable, 1977.
* James, Lawrence. ''The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia.'' London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. Revised edition, London: Abacus, 1995. [http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Warrior-Legend-Lawrence-Arabia/dp/0349106738/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195563555&sr=1-11  excerpt and text search]
* Liddell Hart, Basil Henry. ''"T. E. Lawrence" in Arabia and After.'' London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. (By a leading military historian. The American edition was published with the title ''Colonel Lawrence: The Man Behind the Legend.'' New York: Dodd, Mead, 1934.) [http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-Arabia-Da-Capo-Paperback/dp/0306803542/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195563555&sr=1-12 excerpt and text search]; [http://www.questia.com/read/209077 full text online]


===Online Links===
===Online Links===
* One of the best web-pages on any well-known person are probably those by Lawrence-biographer Jeremy Wilson: indispensable even for those who already know a lot about Lawrence: [http://telawrence.info/telawrenceinfo/index.htm telawrence.info, telawrence.net, and telawrencestudies.org]
* One of the best web-pages on any well-known person are probably those by Lawrence-biographer Jeremy Wilson: indispensable even for those who already know a lot about Lawrence: [http://telawrence.info/telawrenceinfo/index.htm telawrence.info, telawrence.net, and telawrencestudies.org]
* [http://telsociety.org.uk/telsociety/index.htm The T. E. Lawrence Society]
* [http://telsociety.org.uk/telsociety/index.htm The T. E. Lawrence Society]

Revision as of 04:20, 31 January 2008

This article is a stub and thus not approved.
Main Article
Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
This editable Main Article is under development and subject to a disclaimer.

Thomas Edward Lawrence, also known as Lawrence of Arabia (August 16, 1888 in Tremadoc, Wales - May 19, 1935 in Bovington, Dorset), was educated as an archaeologist and historian. After the outbreak of the Great War, he became an intelligence officer and a liaison officer with the Arab Revolt from 1916-1918. From 1921 to 1922 he was a member of the Colonial Office and instrumental in the founding of the Arab states in the Middle East. Though ending the War as a Colonel, he served from 1922 to 1935 as a soldier in the Tank Corps and the Royal Air Force. Despite his awareness of his extraordinary personality and his self-confidence, he ardently wished to be considered not as a war hero, or even an adventurer, but as an author.

Early life and education

In World War I

At the Versailles Peace Conference and in the Colonial Office

In the ranks

His writings

His character and his appeal

Notes


Online Links