Talk:Seven Pillars of Wisdom

message: The lead sentence on the second to last paragraph does not make sense as it reads: "The public would have had to remain satisfied with Revolt in the Desert, however, were it not for Lawrence's untimely death in May 1935." 
I recommend the following as conveying what I think the author of this paragraph was trying to say:
"The public would have to remain satisfied with Revolt in the Desert, however, due to Lawrence's untimely death in May 1935."
Origen 02:49, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No. As the rest of the paragraph explains, RitD, the abridgement of SPoW, was the only text made publically available during Lawrence's life. Thus the public would not have had access to the full text of SPoW for another few decades. But Lawrence's early death led to its early publication.
> I have an edition of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.  However, it is a copy of the 1926 version printed by Garden City Publishing Co. Inc., New York.  This publisher produced two printings (from the info in the book) "Privately Published 1926, First published for general circulation 1935, De Luxe Edition, 1938 (which is this book).  I wonder if there is anyone out there who knows about these later editions?  - drlarue@drlarue.com  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.130.157 (talk) 23:10, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Manuscript

message: The famous formation in Wadi Rum called the 'seven pillars' of which there are either 6 or 8 depending what you consider a pillar. Was locally considered the site where Lawrence chose the name for the book. Since this theory has lost credit it seems the theory that Lawrence that gave the name to the pillars has stepped in to save the day. I suppose this is true of 'Lawrence's spring', and 'Lawrence house' and Lawrence pretty much everything else in Wadi Rum too? Is there any basis to this statement or is it based on Bedouin tourist marketing, which apparently begins and ends with the highly sell-able - 'Lawrence was here'?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.235.10.125 (talk) 14:09, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wadi Rum seven pillars 

message: Contrary to the impression given here and elsewhere, the public edition was announced at least as early as 1925 and in advance of subscription. From a letter dated 12 April 1925: "... There will be an abridgement in 1927, at a guinea, for public consumption. I suppose all this is agreeable to you? / Subscribers have to put a cheque for ...".
Roger (talk) 16:01, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public edition (1927) 

message: I'm assuming this uncited bit is true:
*The unabridged Oxford Text of 1922 was not made publicly available until its UK copyright expired in 1997.
If it is true, why is there no link to an electronic version of that now public domain edition?  Also, is there any place that would still consider the copyright on any edition to still exist?  Under the most generous terms of the Berne Convention, all of Lawrence's works would have become public domain in 2005, 70 years after his 1935 death.  Is there anything indicating the UK still considers any edition to still be under a term of copyright?  And if the UK doesn't why would any other state?  IMHO (talk) 02:28, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright and editions 

message: There is a 1997 claim that an early manuscript has been found - see http://www.independent.co.uk/news/found-lawrence-of-arabias-lost-text-1266823.html 188.164.224.203 (talk) 12:01, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Text Claim 

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