Sons and Lovers (Bantam Classics) - Softcover

Lawrence, D.H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553211927 ISBN 13: 9780553211924

Publisher: Bantam USA, 1985

Synopsis

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 the intimacies enforced by a tightly knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long.

When the marriage between Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break down, the bitterness of their frustration seeps into their children's lives. Their second son, Paul, craves the warmth of family and community, but knows that he must sacrifice everything in the struggle for independence if he is not to repeat his parents' failure.

Lawrence's powerful description of Paul's single-minded efforts to define himself sexually and emotionally through relationships with two women -- the innocent, old-fashioned Miriam Leivers and the experienced, provocatively modern Clara Dawes -- makes this a novel as much for the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was for the beginning of the twentieth.

About this title

Review:

The Modern Library of the World's Best Books

"No other writer with his imaginative standing has in our time written books that are so open to life."

-- Alfred Kazin

"There is no novel in english literature which comes so close to the skin of life of working class people, for it records their feelings in their own terms."

-- V. S. Pritchett

Book Description:

A story of love, passion and family from the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam USA
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0553211927
• ISBN 13: 9780553211924
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 496