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The writing of SPoW

Bibliographical description

The book itself

The illustrations

Appendices



Length of books

The length of each Book varies considerably, from the 31 pages of Book VIII to 85 in Book IV. The page references for each Book are:

Page numbers Number of pages Chapters Number of chapters
Introduction
3-[40]
38
1-7
7
Book 1
41-[91]
51
8-10,
12-17
9
Book II
93-144
52
18-28
11
Book III
145-207
63
29-39
11
Book IV
209-293
85
40-55
16
Book V
295-363
69
56-69
14
Book VI
365-[435]
71
70-82
13
Book VII
437-489
53
83-92
10
Book VIII
491-521
31
93-98
6
Book IX
523-569
47
99-107
9
Book X
571-652
82
108-123
16

Lawrence told Graves 'The chapters were after-thoughts: it was written in Books' (1), but the third and final manuscript draft is divided into chapters.

1 Biog G, p 55, 28.VI.27

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