Sons and Lovers (Classic Fiction) [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio CD]

The jaunty miner who proud Mrs Morel married has become a boorish drunk, so she devotes herself to her sons, particularly Paul. The suppressed sexuality of this intense relationship prevents Paul from choosing a wife. The mute yearning of the dark and brooding Miriam eventually repels him, nor can he give himself wholly to the over-demanding Clara. The cloying love between mother and son borders on the repellent, but the sympathetic narration rescues it, making the web of emotions startlingly real. The narrator is a Nottingham man and his presentation of the dialect is skilful. Mr Morel gains in humanity, emerging as emotionally wounded as his wife. --Rachel Redford

Slack s reading of Lawrence s classic novel portrays, with clarity, the class differences between Walter Morel and his wife, Gertrude, in the tough world of coal mining. Gertrude s middle-class background and her husband s working-class origins are clearly indicated in Slack s varied accents and tones. But it is the mother s relationship with her children, especially William, the eldest, and Paul, after William s death, that is most lyrically and elegiacally relayed. Slack s rendering of Paul s obsessions and preoccupations is sympathetically handled. Gertrude s aloofness is icily portrayed. Walter, despite his drunkenness and coarseness, seems far more sympathetic in audio. Paul s relationship with Miriam Leivers is pivotal, and the tensions that their relationship causes between Gertrude and her favorite son are central to the story. Slack underscores her maternal jealousy, showing it in sharp contrast to Gertrude s cold manner with her husband. Lawrence s central themes are heightened through the marvelous British-laced reading. --Mary McCay, Booklist

Set in 1900s, this is a lushly descriptive and highly autobiographical portrayal of a young man growing up in class-divided Nottingham --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The initial romance between a woman of 'good family' and a miner does not last long into marriage as they face tough economic realities. Widely regarded as Lawrence's masterpiece.

Now printed in full for the first time, Sons and Lovers is one of the great works of twentieth-century literature. In 1913, at the time of its first publication, Lawrence reluctantly agreed to the removal of no fewer than eighty passages which until now have never been restored.

D. H. Lawrence’s chronicle of the early life of Paul Morel is a superb example of autobiography transformed into art.

Insulted and neglected by her husband, a brutal hard-drinking miner, Gertrude Morel pours her abundant affection on to her children. Paul, her second son, is an aspiring artist who pities his sensitive mother and hates his father. But Paul’s relationship with his mother is strained to breaking point when he meets Miriam. Torn between the jealous love of two women Paul must break free from the emotional maelstrom around him.

Reader: Paul Copley --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD EYRE

'Lawrence's masterpiece... A revelation' Anthony Burgess

Paul Morel is the focus of his disappoited and fiercely protective mother's life. Their tender, devoted and intense bond comes under strain when Paul falls in love with Miriam Leivers, a local girl his mother disapproves of. The arrival of the provocatively modern Clara Dawes causes further tension and Paul is torn bewtween his individual desires and family alleigences.

Set in a Nottinghamshire mining town at the turn of the twentieth century, this is a powerful portrayal of family and love in all its forms.

'A work whose power stands the test of time' Sunday Times

See also: Women in Love

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist, story writer, critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. Among his works are The White Peacock(1911), Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915) and Lady Chatterly's Lover, first published privately in Florence in 1928. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.