f 652 pages 211 were omitted entirely’ (O’Brien, p. Whole chapters and large portions of others were dropped. Taking a set of proofs of the Cranwell edition and using a brush and purple ink, Lawrence marked out sections of the text. The abridgement ‘was undertaken in 1926 by Lawrence himself with the help of some of his fellow servicemen, the earlier attempt by Edward Garnett having been set aside. Revolt in the Desert was an abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which was undertaken by Lawrence to defray some of the significant expenses incurred by the lavish and painstaking production of the ‘subscriber’s’ or ‘Cranwell’ edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, that had escalated from an initial estimate of £3,000 to some £13,000.
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