Sons and lovers
By: D.H. Lawrence ; edited by Helen Baron and Carl Baron.
Contributors: Baron, Helen.; Baron, Carl.
Series: The Cambridge edition of the letters and works of D.H. Lawrence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 675
Subjects: Working class families -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Description: Torn between his passion for two women and his abiding attachment to his mother, young Paul Morel struggles with his desire to please everyone--particularly himself. Lawrence's highly autobiographical novel unfolds against the backdrop of his native Nottinghamshire coal fields, amidst a working-class family dominated by a brutish father and a loving but overbearing mother.