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Sons and Lovers

(A Modern Library E-Book)

By D.H. Lawrence
Introduction by Geoff Dyer

By D.H. Lawrence
Introduction by Geoff Dyer

By D.H. Lawrence

By D.H. Lawrence

By D. H. Lawrence
Introduction by David Ellis

By D. H. Lawrence
Introduction by David Ellis

By D.H. Lawrence

By D.H. Lawrence

By D.H. Lawrence

By D.H. Lawrence

Part of Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Part of Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics Series

Part of Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Romance | Fiction Classics

Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Romance | Fiction Classics

Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Romance | Fiction Classics

Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Romance | Fiction Classics

Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Romance | Fiction Classics

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Paperback $11.95

Aug 17, 1999 | 752 Pages

Mass Market Paperback $5.95

Aug 01, 1985 | 496 Pages

Hardcover $22.00

Nov 26, 1991 | 432 Pages

Ebook $1.99

Jan 30, 2007 | 496 Pages

Ebook $2.99

Nov 01, 2000 | 752 Pages

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    About Sons and Lovers

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

    With a new Introduction by Geoff Dyer
    Commentary by Anthony Burgess, Jessie Chambers, Frieda Lawrence, V.S. Pritchett, Kate Millett, and Alfred Kazin

    Of all Lawrence’s work, Sons and Lovers tells us most about the emotional source of his ideas,” observed Diana Trilling. “The famous Lawrence theme of the struggle for sexual power–and he is sure that all the struggles of civilized life have their root in this primary contest–is the constantly elaborated statement of the fierce battle which tore Lawrence’s family.”

    Sons and Lovers is one of the landmark novels of the twentieth century. When it appeared in 1913, it was immediately recognized as the first great modern restatement of the oedipal drama, and it is now widely considered the major work of D. H. Lawrence’s early period. This intensely autobiographical novel recounts the story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing to manhood in a British working-class family rife with conflict. The author’s vivid evocation of the all-consuming nature of possessive love and sexual attraction makes this one of his most powerful novels.

    For the critic Kate Millett, “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.”

    About Sons and Lovers

    Since its publication in 1913, D. H. Lawrence’s powerful and passionate third novel stands as one of the greatest autobiographical novels of the twentieth century. Here is the story of artist Paul Morel as a young man, his powerful relationship with his possessive mother, his passionate love affair with Miriam Leivers, his intense liaison with married Clara Dawes. Here, too, England’s Derbyshire springs to life with both is sooty mining villages and deep green pastures, a setting as full of contrasts as the deep emotions that rule this remarkable book.

    Sons and Lovers is rich with universal truths about relationships; moreover, it brims with what Alfred Kazin has called Lawrence’s "magic sympathy, between himself and life." Continues Mr. Kazin: "No other writer of his imaginative standing has in our time written books that are so open to life…Since for Lawrence the great subject of literature was not the writer’s own consciousness but consciousness between people, the living felt relationship between them, it was his very concern to represent the ‘shimmer’ of life, the ‘wholeness’…that made possible his brilliance as a novelist."

    With an Introduction by John Gross

    About Sons and Lovers

    (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Introduction by David EllisThe struggle for power at the heart of a family in conflict, the mysteries of sexual initiation, and the pain of irretrievable loss are the universal motifs with which D. H. Lawrence fashions one of the world’s most original autobiographical novels.Gertrude Morel is a refined woman who married beneath her and has come to loathe her brutal, working-class husband. She focuses her passion instead on her two sons, who return her love and despise their father. Trouble begins when Paul Morel, a budding artist, falls in love with a young woman who seems capable of rivaling his mother for possession of his soul. In the ensuing battle, he finds his path to adulthood tragically impeded by the enduring power of his mother’s grasp. Published on the eve of World War I, SONS AND LOVERS confirmed Lawrence’s genius and inaugurated the controversy over his explicit writing about sexuality and human relationships that would follow him to the end of his career.

    About Sons and Lovers

    (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Introduction by David EllisThe struggle for power at the heart of a family in conflict, the mysteries of sexual initiation, and the pain of irretrievable loss are the universal motifs with which D. H. Lawrence fashions one of the world’s most original autobiographical novels.Gertrude Morel is a refined woman who married beneath her and has come to loathe her brutal, working-class husband. She focuses her passion instead on her two sons, who return her love and despise their father. Trouble begins when Paul Morel, a budding artist, falls in love with a young woman who seems capable of rivaling his mother for possession of his soul. In the ensuing battle, he finds his path to adulthood tragically impeded by the enduring power of his mother’s grasp. Published on the eve of World War I, SONS AND LOVERS confirmed Lawrence’s genius and inaugurated the controversy over his explicit writing about sexuality and human relationships that would follow him to the end of his career.

    About Sons and Lovers

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

    Sons and Lovers is one of the landmark novels of the twentieth century. It was immediately recognized as the first great modern restatement of the oedipal drama when it appeared in 1913 and is widely considered the major work of D. H. Lawrence’s early period. This intensely autobiographical novel recounts the story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing to manhood in a British working-class family rife with conflict. The author’s vivid evocation of life in a Nottingham mining village in the years before the First World War and his depiction of the all-consuming nature of possessive love and sexual attraction make this one of his most powerful novels.

    ‘Of all Lawrence’s work, Sons and Lovers, tells us most about the emotional source of his ideas,’ observed Diana Trilling. ‘The famous Lawrence theme of the struggle for sexual power–and he is sure that all the struggles of civilized life have their root in this primary contest–is the constantly elaborated statement of the fierce battle which tore Lawrence’s family.’ For Kate Millett, ‘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.’

    Also by D.H. Lawrence

    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Selected Poems
    Selected Stories (Lawrence, D. H.)
    The Spy's Bedside Book
    The Woman Who Rode Away; St. Mawr; the Princess
    See all books by D.H. Lawrence

    Also by D.H. Lawrence

    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Selected Poems
    Selected Stories (Lawrence, D. H.)
    The Spy's Bedside Book
    The Woman Who Rode Away; St. Mawr; the Princess
    See all books by D.H. Lawrence

    Also by D.H. Lawrence

    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Selected Poems
    Selected Stories (Lawrence, D. H.)
    The Spy's Bedside Book
    The Woman Who Rode Away; St. Mawr; the Princess
    See all books by D.H. Lawrence

    Also by D.H. Lawrence

    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Selected Poems
    Selected Stories (Lawrence, D. H.)
    The Spy's Bedside Book
    The Woman Who Rode Away; St. Mawr; the Princess
    See all books by D.H. Lawrence

    Also by D.H. Lawrence

    Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Selected Poems
    Selected Stories (Lawrence, D. H.)
    The Spy's Bedside Book
    The Woman Who Rode Away; St. Mawr; the Princess
    See all books by D.H. Lawrence

    About D.H. Lawrence

    D. H. Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature, was born on September 11, 1885, in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to… More about D.H. Lawrence

    About D.H. Lawrence

    D. H. Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature, was born on September 11, 1885, in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to… More about D.H. Lawrence

    About D. H. Lawrence

    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

    About D.H. Lawrence

    D. H. Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature, was born on September 11, 1885, in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to… More about D.H. Lawrence

    About D.H. Lawrence

    D. H. Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature, was born on September 11, 1885, in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to… More about D.H. Lawrence

    Product Details

    Paperback | $11.95
    Published by Modern Library
    Aug 17, 1999 | 752 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375753732

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Aug 01, 1985 | 496 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553211924

    Hardcover | $22.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Nov 26, 1991 | 432 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679405726

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Jan 30, 2007 | 496 Pages | ISBN 9780553903393

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 01, 2000 | 752 Pages | ISBN 9780679641650

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