Sons and Lovers

David Herbert Lawrence

Wordsworth Editions, 1993 - Fiction - 366 pages

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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This semi-autobiographical novel is important in understanding Lawrence's relationships to class, to his mother, and to love and sex. And it's a remarkably modern read, considering that it was ...

Contents

• The Early Married Life of the Morels: 3
• The Casting Off of Morel the Taking On of William: 41
• The Young Life of Paul: 52
• Paul Launches into Life: 74
• Death in the Family: 100
• vn LadandGirl Love: 125
• Strife in Love: 157
• Defeat of Miriam: 188
• The Test on Miriam: 242
• xn Passion: 262
• Baxter Dawes: 297
• The Release: 330

About the author

D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885. His father was a coal miner and Lawrence grew up in a mining town in England. He always hated the mines, however, and frequently used them in his writing to represent both darkness and industrialism, which he despised because he felt it was scarring the English countryside. Lawrence attended high school and college in Nottingham and, after graduation, became a school teacher in Croyden in 1908. Although his first two novels had been unsuccessful, he turned to writing full time when a serious illness forced him to stop teaching. Lawrence spent much of his adult life abroad in Europe, particularly Italy, where he wrote some of his most significant and most controversial novels, including Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterly's Lover. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, who had left her first husband and her children to live with him, spent several years touring Europe and also lived in New Mexico for a time. Lawrence had been a frail child, and he suffered much of his life from tuberculosis. Eventually, he retired to a sanitorium in Nice, France. He died in France in 1930, at age 44. In his relatively short life, he produced more than 50 volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel journals, and letters, in addition to the novels for which he is best known.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sons and Lovers; Classics Library; Modern library of the world's best books; Wordsworth classics
• Author: David Herbert Lawrence
• Editor: Howard J. Booth
• Compiled by: Howard J. Booth
• Contributor: Howard J. Booth
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1993
• ISBN: 1853260479, 9781853260476
• Length: 366 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Psychological