Sons and Lovers (Wordsworth Classics) [Paperback]

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 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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 an alternate Paperback edition.

This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive 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.

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 an alternate Paperback edition.

David Trotter is Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College, London.