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Dec 06, 2005 | ISBN 9780451530004 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Dec 06, 2005 | ISBN 9781101153963 Buy
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Dec 06, 2005 | ISBN 9780451530004
Dec 06, 2005 | ISBN 9781101153963
D. H. Lawrence’s great autobiographical novel paints a provocative portrait of an artist torn between affection for his mother and desire for two beautiful women. Set in the Nottinghamshire coalfields of Lawrence’s own boyhood, the story follows young Paul Morel’s growth into manhood in a British working-class family.Gertrude Morel, Paul’s puritanical mother, concentrates all her love and attention on Paul, nurturing his talents as a painter. When she muses that he might marry someday and desert her, the attentive son swears he will never leave her. Then Paul falls in love—with not one woman but two—and must eventually choose between them.…
The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published… More about D. H. Lawrence
Praise for D.H. Lawrence“The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation.”—E. M. Forster “He was a language, a setting, a world entirely of his own…He was, like all true poetry, against tepid living and tepid loves…[giving] full expression to the gestures of passion.”—Anaïs Nin
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