An edition of Sons and Lovers (1913)

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An edition of Sons and Lovers (1913)

Sons and lovers

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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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1993, Wordsworth
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1992, Cambridge University Press
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1992, Cambridge University Press
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1962, Modern Library
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1913, Viking Press
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Sons and lovers
1913, M. Kennerley
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Cambridge [England], New York

Edition Notes

Series
The Cambridge edition of the letters and works of D.H. Lawrence

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6023.A93 S6 1992, PR6023.A93S6 1992

The Physical Object

Pagination
lxxxi, 675 p. ;
Number of pages
675

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1534799M
Internet Archive
sonslovers00lawr_3
ISBN 10
0521242762, 0521285763
LCCN
91012669
Library Thing
7790
Goodreads
3372420

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