Film Focus:
Lawrence of
Arabia



Director: David Lean
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif.
Academy Award Winner: Best Picture (1962)



Biographies About T. E. Lawrence

COLONEL LAWRENCE: THE MAN BEHIND THE LEGEND, by Liddell Hart. Dodd, Mead, 1935.

THE DESERT AND THE STARS : A BIOGARPHY OF LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, by Flora Armitage. Holt, 1955.

THE GOLDEN WARRIOR: THE LIFE & LEGEND OF LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, by Lawrence James. Paragon, 1993, 1990.

LAWRENCE AND THE ARABS, by Robert Graves. Paragon, 1991, 1955.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: A BIOGRAPHICAL ENQUIRY, by Richard Arlington. Collins, 1969.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: A TRIUMPH, by Robert Payne. Hale, 1966.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF T.E. LAWRENCE, by Jeremy Wilson. Heinemann, 1989.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: THE MAN AND THE MOTIVE, by Anthony Nutting. Potter, 1961.

LAWRENCE: THE UNCROWNED KING OF ARABIA, by Michael Asher. Overlook, 1999.

A PRINCE OF OUR DISORDER: THE LIFE OF T.E. LAWRENCE, by John E. Mack. Little, Brown, 1976.

PRIVATE SHAW AND PUBLIC SHAW: A DUAL PORTRAIT OF LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and G.B.S., by Stanley Weintraub. Braziller, 1963.

THE SECRET LIVES OF LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, by Phillip Knightley & Colin Simpson. M-H, 1970.

SOLITARY IN THE RANKS: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA AS AIRMAN AND PRIVATE SOLDIER, by H. Montgomery Hyde. Constable, 1977.

A TOUCH OF GENIUS: THE LIFE OF T.E. LAWRENCE, by Malcolm Brown & Julia Cave. Dent, 1988.

T. E. LAWRENCE, by Peter Ludwig Brent. Putnam, 1975.

T. E. LAWRENCE, by Vyvyan Richards. Duckworth, 1939.

T. E. LAWRENCE, by Desmond Stewart. H&R, 1977.

T. E. LAWRENCE: A BIOGRAPHY, by Michael Yardley. Stein & Day, 1987, 1985.


Other Books About T. E. Lawrence

THE CONFESSIONS OF T. E. LAWRENCE: THE ROMANTIC HERO'S PRESENTATION OF SELF, by Thomas J. O'Donnell. Ohio St., 1978.

THE ESSENTIAL T. E. LAWRENCE. Viking, 1963, 1939.

LAWRENCE AND THE ARABIAN ADVENTURE, by Robert Graves. Doubleday, Doran, 1928;

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA AND HIS WORLD, by Richard Perceval Graves. Scribner's Sons, 1976.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: THE LITERARY IMPULSE, by Stanley Weintraub. LA St. U., 1975.

LETTERS TO T. E. LAWRENCE, ed. by A. W. Lawrence. J. Capr, 1962.

T. E. LAWRENCE, by Stephen Ely Tabachnick. Twayne, 1978.

T. E. LAWRENCE: AN ARAB VIEW, by Sulayman Musa. Oxford, 1966.

T. E. LAWRENCE: SOLDIER, WRITER, LEGEND: NEW ESSAYS, ed. by Jeffrey Meyers. St. M., 1989.

T. E. LAWRENCE BY HIS FRIENDS: A NEW SELECTION OF MEMOIRS. M-H, 1963, 1937.

WITH LAWRENCE IN ARABIA, by Lowell Thomas. Doubleday, 1967.

The WOUNDED SPIRIT: T. E. LAWRENCE'S SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. St. M., 1989.


Writings of T.E. Lawrence

THE MINT: NOTES MADE IN THE R.A.F. DEPOT BETWEEN AUGUST AND DECEMBER, 1922, AND AT CADET COLLEGE IN 1925. Doubleday, 1955.

REVOLT IN THE DESERT. Doran, 1927.

SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. Doubleday, 1935.

T. E. LAWRENCE: THE SELECTED LETTERS, ed. by Malcolm Brown. Norton, 1989.

T. E. LAWRENCE TO HIS BIOGRAPHERS. Doubleday, 1963, 1938.


Related Reading

ALLENBY OF ARABIA: LAWRENCE'S GENERAL, by Brian Gardner. C-M, 1966.

ALLENBY, A STUDY IN GREATNESS : THE BIOGRAPHY OF FIELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNT ALLENBY OF MEGIDDO and FELIXSTOWE, by Sir Archibald Wavell. Oxford, 1941.

DESERT QUEEN : THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF GERTRUDE BELL: ADVENTURER, ADVISER TO KINGS, ALLY OF LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, by Janet Wallach. Talese, 1996.

FAISAL, KING OF SAUDI ARABIA, by Gerald De Gaury. Praeger, 1967, 1966.


Miscellaneous

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: THE BATTLE FOR THE ARAB WORLD. (DVD). Warner, 2003.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA : THE OFFICIAL 30TH ANNIVERSARY PICTORIAL HISTORY, by L. Robert Morris and Lawrence Raskin ; forward by Martin Scorsese. Doubleday, c1992.

THE WATERS OF BABYLON : A NOVEL OF LAWRENCE AFTER ARABIA, by David Stevens. S&S, 2000.


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