Sons and Lovers

by Lawrence, D. H.

• ISBN13: 9781853260476
• ISBN10: 1853260479
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Wordsworth

Summary

Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly-knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden forlong. Paul Morel is caught between his need for family and community and his efforts to define himself sexually and emotionally. Lawrence's powerful description of Paul's relationships makes this a novel as much for the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was for the beginning of thetwentieth.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Early Married Life of the Morels	3	(22)
The Birth of Paul, and Another Battle	25	(16)
The Casting Off of Morel-the Taking On of William	41	(11)
The Young Life of Paul	52	(22)
Paul Launches into Life	74	(26)
Death in the Family	100	(25)
Lad-and-Girl Love	125	(32)
Strife in Love	157	(31)
Defeat of Miriam	188	(32)
Clara	220	(22)
The Test on Miriam	242	(20)
Passion	262	(35)
Baxter Dawes	297	(33)
The Release	330	(26)
Derelict	356	(11)
Notes	367