Sons and Lovers (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

by D.H. Lawrence (Author), Keith Sagar (Introduction)

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  Paperback
  1987

  $3.40

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.25

  Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly-knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long. When the marriage between Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break down, the bitterness of their frustration seeps into their children's lives. Their second son, Paul, craves the warmth of family and community, but knows that he must sacrifice everything in the struggle for independence if he is not to repeat his parents' failure. Lawrence's powerful description of Paul's single-minded efforts to define himself sexually and emotionally through relationships with two women - the innocent, old-fashioned Miriam Leivers and the experienced, provocatively modern Clara Dawes - makes this a novel as much for the beginning of the 21st century as it was for the beginning of the 20th.

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $6.59

  One of the greatest novels of the 20th century, Sons and Lovers is published uncut and uncensored for the first time, as D.H. Lawrence wrote it. William Morel's role as a forerunner of his brother Paul is restored--the book now fulfills the plurals of the title, and above all, the sexual encounters remind us how far ahead of his time Lawrence was.

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $6.82

  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.

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $14.86

  Published in 1913, this is a fictionalized account of Lawrence's love for his mother. It traces Paul Morel's childhood, his growing into adolescence and adulthood, and the frustrations of his love for Miriam and Clara caused by his mother's possessiveness and his devotion to her.