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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.
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Fiction, England in fiction, Working class families, Young men in fiction, Working class families in fiction, Young men, Facsimiles, Social life and customs, England, Manuscripts, English Manuscripts, Coal mines and mining, Domestic fiction, Coal mines and mining in fiction, Customs and Manners, Classic Literature, Mothers and sons, Married women, Possessiveness, Coal miners, open_syllabus_project, Working class families -- Fiction, Young men -- Fiction, England -- Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, biographical, Large type books, Fiction, family life, general, Lawrence, d. h. (david herbert), 1885-1930, Families, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, erotica, general, Autobiographical fiction, Bildungsromans, Long Now Manual for Civilization, FamilyPeople
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Sons and lovers
1992, Cambridge University Press
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0521432219 9780521432214
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Sons and lovers: St Mawr ; The fox ; The white peacock ; Love among the haystacks ; The virgin and the gipsy ; Lady Chatterley's lover.
1976, Heinemann/Octopus
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0905712072 9780905712079
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Sons and Lovers, a story of working-class England, is D. H. Lawrence’s third novel. It went through various drafts, and was titled “Paul Morel” until the final draft, before being published and met with an indifferent reaction from contemporary critics. Modern critics now consider it to be D. H. Lawrence’s masterpiece, with the Modern Library placing it ninth in its “100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century.”
The novel follows the Morels, a family living in a coal town, and headed by a passionate but boorish miner. His wife, originally from a refined family, is dragged down by Morel’s classlessness, and finds her life’s joy in her children. As the children grow up and start leading lives of their own, they struggle against their mother’s emotional drain on them.
Sons and Lovers was written during a period in Lawrence’s life when his own mother was gravely ill. Its exploration of the Oedipal instinct, frank depiction of working-class household unhappiness and violence, and accurate and colorful depiction of Nottinghamshire dialect, make it a fascinating window into the life of people not often chronicled in fiction of the day.
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