Sons and Lovers (Version 2)
Author: first_name: D. H.
last_name: Lawrence
Language: English
Year: 1913

Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:
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“It follows this idea: a woman of character and refinement goes into the lower class, and has no satisfaction in her own life. She has had a passion for her husband, so her children are born of passion, and have heaps of vitality. But as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers — first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother — urged o