D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (1913) is an autobiographical novel about selfishness and sentimental manipulation set in the mining village of Bestwood. Paul Morel is a young man from a poor family in rural England. The story explores the break-up of husband and wife and a mother's bonds with her sons.
The classic novel about a man torn between his devotion to his mother and his desire for a lover.
Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about...
Lawrence's powerful description of Paul's relationships makes this a novel as much for the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was for the beginning of thetwentieth.
Here is the story of artist Paul Morel as a young man, his powerful relationship with his possessive mother, his passionate love affair with Miriam Leivers, his intense liaison with married Clara Dawes.
A guide to reading "Sons and Lovers" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure.
The early version of twentieth-century classic Sons and Lovers, containing scenes and ideas later discarded.
D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers: A Casebook
The story of how 'Sons and Lovers' was written, how Lawrence's life was transformed during the writing, and the contributions of the women in his life to his work.
The first critical study of the new Cambridge Edition text relates it to Lawrence's other works and traces the history of its reception.
Originally published in 1918. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.