Sons and Lovers [Kindle Edition]

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

Set in 1900s, this is a lushly descriptive and highly autobiographical portrayal of a young man growing up in class-divided Nottingham

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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.

This is the unexpurgated version of "Sons and Lovers". It contains the full role of William as Paul Morel's elder brother (justifying the plurals of the title), more detailed scenes between his warring parents and the full sexual encounters which place Lawrence so far ahead of his time.

Now printed in full for the first time, Sons and Lovers is D. H. Lawrence's most widely read novel and 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. This edition presents the novel in the form that Lawrence himself wanted - about one tenth longer than the incomplete and expurgated version that has hitherto been available. The introduction of this edition relates much new information about Lawrence's two-year struggle to write his autobiographical masterpiece. The notes document many previously unknown sources, and indicate Lawrence's preoccupation with key contemporary issues such as women's rights, and the impact of evolutionary theory on religion and ethics. Published in two volumes.

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

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

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.