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by D. H. Lawrence


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Though it is the author’s third novel, Sons and Lovers is often regarded as D.H. Lawrence’s masterpiece. The autobiographical work, which was originally titled Paul Morel after its protagonist, was set in motion with the death of Lawrence’s mother, Lydia. The author used the opportunity to reexamine his childhood, his relationship with his mother, and her psychological effect on his sexuality.

Sons and Lovers had already been rejected by one publisher when Lawrence sent the manuscript to Edward Garnett of Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd. Garnett made extensive editing suggestions and still — after Lawrence rewrote the manuscript for the fourth time — cut 80 passages, about 10% of the work, before its 1913 publication.

At the time of publication, Sons and Lovers was criticized for being obscene. But the novel endured. It has been adapted for film multiple times, including the Academy Award winning 1960 film. The Modern Library placed it ninth on their list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.

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you love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket.
And there I will die smothered."
Following a passionate whirlwind romance with Walter Morel, an unsophisticated, drinking miner, Gertrude Coppard, a refined and delicately moulded woman, becomes Mrs. Morel, only to face the difficulties of living in a rented house with her husband's meagre salary and no satisfaction in life.
As they drift apart, Mrs. Morel's affections shift to her sons. Dedicating her life, first to William, the oldest, and then to Paul, her second son, she is determined that they not follow their father.
But what happens as the sons enter manhood and come in contact with women?
Will Paul be able to escape his mother's suffocating grasp?
Will Mrs. Morel remain a custodian of her sons' souls?
Drawing upon Lawrence's provincial upbringing, Sons and Lovers is a gripping portrayal of class, family, childhood, adolescence, and sexual relationships. Lawrence's finest achievement, this semi-autobiographical masterpiece is placed ninth on the Modern Library's list of 100 best novels of the 20th century.

First Edition Identification

Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd. first published Sons and Lovers in the UK in 1913. First editions have dark blue binding, gold lettering stamped on the upper cover and spine, and a 20-page segment of publisher's advertisements at the end. There are at least two or three issues of the first edition: copies have been noted both with the bound-in title without date and with the tipped-in title with the date on the copyright page.

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  • Title Sons and Lovers
  • Author D. H. Lawrence
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 456
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fingerprint! Publishing
  • ISBN 9788175993099 / 817599309X
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1800-1850
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

"Born in September 1885, David Herbert Lawrence was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. He was a novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published under the name D. H. Lawrence.
Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile which he called his " savage pilgrimage" . At the time of his death, his public
reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as, " The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical " great tradition" of the English novel."

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