Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence

Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence

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D.H. Lawrence's first major novel was also one of the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. The story deals with the intimacies enforced by a tightly-knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long.

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Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence

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.
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ISBN 13 9780192838605
ISBN 10 0192838601
Title Sons and Lovers
Author D H Lawrence
Series Oxford World's Classics
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1998-04-02
Number of pages 528
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