Sons & Lovers
In Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence crafts an achingly intimate portrait of Paul Morel, a young artist caught between his suffocating devotion to his mother and his desperate need to forge his own identity through love and creative expression. Lawrence draws from the raw materials of his own working-class upbringing to explore how family bonds can simultaneously nurture and destroy, creating a psychological landscape so vivid you can feel the coal dust settling on your skin. The novel asks a question that resonates across generations: How do we break free from the very relationships that shaped us without losing ourselves entirely in the process? This is Lawrence at his most accessible yet penetrating—a book that will leave you examining your own family dynamics long after you’ve turned the final page.
- Originally Published: 1913
- Publisher: VIVI Books, 2014
- Genre: Literary Fiction
- Pages: 435
- Book Type: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9788182529007
- Access: Members
Description
One of Modern Library Top 100 Novels
Sons and Lovers follows Paul Morel, a sensitive young artist coming of age in the harsh landscape of an English coal-mining town. Trapped between his passionate, educated mother Gertrude—who married beneath her station and now pours all her thwarted ambitions into her son—and his rough, alcoholic miner father, Paul struggles to forge his own identity. As he grows into manhood, his intense bond with his mother becomes both his greatest source of strength and his most crippling limitation, poisoning his relationships with two very different women: Miriam, the spiritual farm girl who shares his love of literature and ideas, and Clara, the sensual, married woman who awakens his physical desires.
Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical novel explores the suffocating power of maternal love, the clash between industrial working-class life and artistic aspiration, and the painful process of breaking free from the past to claim one’s own life.
Considered one of the first great psychological novels of the 20th century, Sons and Lovers remains a powerful examination of family, sexuality, and the cost of growing up.
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