Sons and Lovers (Twentieth Century Classics)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0140182152
ISBN 13
9780140182156
Category
823 English Fiction
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Publication Year
1989
Publisher
Pages
512
Subject
Mothers and sons -- Fiction. Mothers and sons.
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Abstract
Because of his domineering mother, Paul is unable to fully love Miriam
Publisher Comments
Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude Morel devotes her life to her sons. But conflict is inevitable when Paul seeks relationships with women to escape the suffocating grasp of his mother. As profoundly affecting today as it was nearly a century ago, this is the peerless Lawrence at his most personal.
* Includes a new introduction, chronology, and further reading
Publisher Comments
Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude Morel devotes her life to her sons. But conflict is inevitable when Paul seeks relationships with women to escape the suffocating grasp of his mother. As profoundly affecting today as it was nearly a century ago, this is the peerless Lawrence at his most personal.
* Includes a new introduction, chronology, and further reading
Description
Review
Lawrence's masterpiece... a revelation. (Anthony Burgess)
Synopsis
The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul. Set in Nottinghamshire, this work is an autobiographical portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.
About the Author
The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.
Blake Morrison has written numerous works, including Things My Mother Never Told Me.
Lawrence's masterpiece... a revelation. (Anthony Burgess)
Synopsis
The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul. Set in Nottinghamshire, this work is an autobiographical portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.
About the Author
The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.
Blake Morrison has written numerous works, including Things My Mother Never Told Me.
Biblio Notes
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Herbert Lawrence; Keith Sagar
ISBN: 0140182152 9780140182156
OCLC Number: 935581718
Description: 506 p. ; 20 cm.
Series Title: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
Responsibility: D. H. Lawrence ; edited with an introduction and notes by Keith Sagar.
Number of Copies
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