The Trespasser (novel)
{{short description|1912 novel by D. H. Lawrence}}
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| author = D. H. Lawrence
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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| publisher = Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd
| release_date = 1912[http://www.s4ulanguages.com/dhlawrence.html Facsimile of the 1st edition (1912)]
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| media_type = Print
| pages = 292
| preceded_by = The White Peacock
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The Trespasser is a 1912 novel by D. H. Lawrence. Set mostly on the Isle of Wight, it tells the story of Siegmund, a married man with children, and his adulterous affair with Helena.
Originally it was titled the Saga of Siegmund and drew upon the experiences of a friend of Lawrence, Helen Corke, and her adulterous relationship with a married man that ended with his suicide. Lawrence worked from Corke's diary, with her permission, but also urged her to publish; which she did in 1933 as Neutral Ground.
Reception
The biographer Brenda Maddox writes in D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage (1994) that The Trespasser was reviewed by the translator Constance Garnett, who found its last fifty pages comparable in quality to the work of "the best Russian school."{{Cite book|title=D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage|last=Maddox|first=Brenda|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=1994|isbn=0-671-68712-3|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/dhlawrencestory00madd/page/58 58]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/dhlawrencestory00madd/page/58}}
Adaptation
Lawrence's novel was adapted into a 1981 television film starring Alan Bates as Siegmund; Pauline Moran as Helena; Margaret Whiting as Beatrice, wife of Siegmund; and Dinah Stabb as Louisa, Helena's friend; among others. It was directed by Colin Gregg and written by Hugh Stoddart.
Standard edition
- The Trespasser (1912), edited by Elizabeth Mansfield, Cambridge University Press, 1981, {{ISBN|0-521-22264-8}}
References
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External links
- {{gutenberg|no=9498|name=The Trespasser}}
- {{librivox book | title=The Trespasser | author=D. H. LAWRENCE}}
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{{wikisource|The Trespasser}}
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Category:Novels by D. H. Lawrence
Category:Novels set on islands
Category:Gerald Duckworth and Company books
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