num_pages: 372
description: An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here, here and here.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 twenty-first century as it was for the beginning of the twentieth.
language: English
title: Sons and Lovers
titlecomplete: Sons and Lovers
characters: Gertrude Morel, Paul Morel, Walter Morel
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Banned Books, 20th Century
ratings_count: 52255
places: England, Nottingham, England, Nottinghamshire, England
publisher: Wordsworth Editions