Sons and Lovers (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Lawrence, D.H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853260479 ISBN 13: 9781853260476

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1992

Synopsis

Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury.

'When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life'.
Richard Aldington

This novel is Lawrence's semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers.

Lawrence's novels are perhaps the most powerful exploration in the genre in English of family, class, sexuality and relationships in youth and early adulthood.

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Review

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

Sons and Lovers is a great novel because it has the ring of something written from deeply felt experience. The past remembered, it conveys more of Lawrence's own knowledge of life than anything else he wrote. His other novels appear somehow artificial beside it --Kate Millet, Critic

Sons and Lovers is a great novel because it has the ring of something written from deeply felt experience. The past remembered, it conveys more of Lawrence's own knowledge of life than anything else he wrote. His other novels appear somehow artificial beside it --Kate Millet, Critic

Book Description

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1853260479
• ISBN 13: 9781853260476
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400