num_pages: 528
description: 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 forlong. Paul Morel is caught between his need for family and community and his efforts to define himself sexually and emotionally. Lawrence's powerful description of Paul's relationships makes this a novel as much for the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was for the beginning of thetwentieth.
language: English
title: Sons and Lovers
titlecomplete: Sons and Lovers (The World's Classics)
characters: Walter Morel, Paul Morel, Gertrude Morel
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, English Literature, British Literature, Classic Literature, Banned Books, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 52246
places: England, Nottingham, England, Nottinghamshire, England
publisher: Oxford University Press