Sons and Lovers
Jenny Turner described "Sons and Lovers" as a semi-autobiographical work in "The Sexual Imagination from Acker to Zola: A Feminist Companion" (1993). She maintained that it showed both "great candor" and "much self-pity". The critic Harold Bloom listed "Sons and Lovers" as one of the books that have been important and influential in Western culture in "The Western Canon" (1994). In 1999, the Modern Library ranked "Sons and Lovers" ninth on a list of the 100 best novels in English of the 20th century.