Based very closely on Lawrence's own life, SONS AND LOVERS (1913) tells the story of young Paul Morel, son of the troubled union of an educated, upwardly mobile mother and an unlettered coal miner father. Although in later life Lawrence regretted his brutal portrait of his father, the hero of his novel is most definitely his mother's boy who becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his mean, impoverished home in a Nottinghamshire coal town. He is drawn to a young woman named Miriam, with whom he reads poetry and speaks French ...
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Based very closely on Lawrence's own life, SONS AND LOVERS (1913) tells the story of young Paul Morel, son of the troubled union of an educated, upwardly mobile mother and an unlettered coal miner father. Although in later life Lawrence regretted his brutal portrait of his father, the hero of his novel is most definitely his mother's boy who becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his mean, impoverished home in a Nottinghamshire coal town. He is drawn to a young woman named Miriam, with whom he reads poetry and speaks French; his mother fears Paul's attraction to Miriam will jeopardize her own relationship with him, and she succeeds in coming between them. Paul then begins an affair with Clara, a married woman and a feminist. When Paul's mother becomes fatally ill and dies, Paul rejects his background for good, resolves to forget both Miriam and Clara, and sets out with renewed resolution on a quest for a life of his own. Unique for its sexual frankness and working-class background, SONS AND LOVERS is Lawrence's first major achievement, and a groundbreaking step forward in the history of English realistic fiction.
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Good in Good jacket. CB5-A tight, clean, sound copy with the DJ endflaps glued to the fixed endpapers, usual library marks, stamps, label, & pocket on the page edges, free endpapers, & the title page. DJ shows minor shelf wear with some light fading on the spine & front top edge, library label on the spine, original library mylar sleeve, mylar sleeve endflaps are glued to the fixed endpapers. This is a title in the publisher's Modern Critical Interpretations.