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Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula
Towards 'An English Fourth'
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text
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'The Mint' and Later Writings About Service Life
Boats for the R.A.F. 1929-1935
reports and correspondence
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The Forest Giant
Letters
Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw
Correspondence with E. M. Forster and F.L. Lucas
More Correspondence with Writers
Correspondence with Edward and David Garnett
Correspondence with Henry Williamson
Translating the Bruce Rogers 'Odyssey'
Correspondence with the Political Elite 1922-1935
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T. E. Lawrence's Works and Correspondence
A scholarly fine-press edition
The Castle Hill Press edition of T.E. Lawrence's works and correspondence is published on subscription. It includes many writings not published elsewhere and aims to meet the needs of researchers and others who are seriously interested in aspects of Lawrence's life. These are readers who require reliable, well indexed texts, and who appreciate authoritative yet restrained editorial commentary that, for example, seeks to provide context where letters would otherwise lose meaning.
Such editions are impossible without a firm editorial policy. That was developed at the outset by Jeremy Wilson (Lawrence's authorised biographer) and his wife and co-editor Nicole. The challenge for an editor is to provide enough collateral information, but not too much. We are constantly tempted to tell readers more about allusions to people or events that we have researched and found interesting. Yet, without deliberate restraint, the editorial matter can swamp the content, obscuring the subtleties in letters that may be the only first-hand evidence we have about a personal relationship.
We also feel that our responsibility is to present historians with the raw material for analysis, not to pass judgments of our own. Numerous passages in letters throw interesting light on Lawrence's activities, values and attitudes. It is often tempting to point that out, but we usually print them without comment. What is obvious to us will surely be obvious to other readers as well.
When we issued the first Letters series volume in 2000 we could only do our best, and hope others would like it enough to make the edition viable. Happily, the series is still running, sixteen years (and eleven letters-volumes) later.
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Some comments on our books:
Considering the tastefulness of the physical design of the Castle Hill volumes - which undoubtedly would have pleased Lawrence, who was a devotee of William Morris's idea of 'the book beautiful' - and the spare tastefulness of their editing, and especially their making available important but otherwise hard-to-access texts, this is a project for which Lawrence scholars will indeed be grateful now and in years to come.
[Professor Stephen E. Tabachnick, writing in English Literature in Transition]Some comments from the customer feedback page on our old website:
. . . I couldn't be more pleased. The attention to detail, and conception of this edition, are wonderful . . .
I cannot praise too highly the quality of the production, with exceptional clarity and beauty of print, the erudition of editing, and the excellent on-line service. Important correspondence in beautiful books - the perfect combination.
. . .Excellence in research and editing, and magnificently produced books in superb bindings. Last but not least, efficient and friendly service, with books posted in rock solid packaging.
. . . These books are a pleasure to own and read . . .
. . . a quite invaluable job in publishing (very beautifully . . .) many of the writings of TEL which hitherto have been available only in manuscript form in museums, libraries or private collections, or in out-of-print books which are very hard to obtain.
An excellent set of publications that are beautifully edited and produced. A wonderful addition to my library and to any library.
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