D.H. Lawrence's great autobiographical novel is a
provocative portrait of an artist torn between love for his possessive
mother and desire for two young beautiful women. Set in the
Nottinghamshire coal fields of Lawrence's own boyhood, the story of
young Paul Morel's growing into manhood in a British working-class
family rife with conflict reveals both an inner and an outer world
seething with intense emotions. Gertrude is Paul's puritanical mother
who concentrates all her love and attention on her son Paul. She
nurtures his talents as a painter - and when she broods that he might
marry someday and desert her, he swears he will never leave her.
Inevitably, Paul does fall in love, but with two women - and is unable
to choose between them. Written early in Lawrence's literary career,
Sons and Lovers possesses all the powers of description, insistent
sensuality, and scathing social criticism that are the special hallmarks
of his genius. "A work of striking originality," writes the critic F.R.
Leavis, by "the greatest creative writer in English of our time."
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