SummaryD. H. Lawrence's posthumous novelMr Noon, published in 1984, was written in 1921 but never finished.Part Two ofMr Noonis to a large extent autobiographical, describing Lawrence's first year with Frieda, 1912, in a slightly fictionalized form. A comparison betweenMr Noon, Frieda Lawrence'sNot I But the Wind, Lawrence's poemsLook We Have Come Throughand his letters brings out the close connection between life and fiction as well as some significant divergencies which tend to idyllize reality.The relation betweenMr Noonand Lawrence's main novels and some of his poems is discussed and analysed.Mr Noonshares themes and ideas with primarilyThe RainbowandWomen in Love, but its tone is fundamentally different. InMr NoonLawrence employs an irreverent, ironic narrator who, from a vantage‐point, looks back at the lost paradise of his youth and simultaneously relives and recreates spontaneously experienced moments of happiness.The reason why Lawrence did not finishMr Noon, which was originally planned as a trilogy, appears to be his increasing disillusion and misanthropy in the course of the year 1921. Instead ofMr NoonLawrence finishedAaron's Rod, which fitted his bitter mood at the tim