Sons And Lovers
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the heart of the English Midlands, in a cramped colliery household suffocating with tension and thwarted ambition, Paul Morel comes of age torn between the suffocating devotion of his mother and his desperate hunger for independence and love. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence's landmark 1913 novel, chronicles the Morel family's bitter struggles — a brutal, hard-drinking father, a fiercely intelligent and emotionally consuming mother, and a sensitive son who finds himself unable to fully surrender to the women who love him — with a raw, unflinching intimacy that shattered the conventions of Edwardian fiction. Lawrence writes with a lyrical intensity that transforms the grime of working-class Nottinghamshire into a landscape of profound psychological and emotional conflict, dissecting the Oedipal bonds that bind and ultimately cripple Paul's capacity for love. Widely regarded as one of the greatest English-language novels of the twentieth century, Sons and Lovers illustrates Lawrence's extraordinary gift for rendering the interior life — its hungers, contradictions, and quiet devastations — with startling precision. A story about the love we cannot escape and the lives we struggle to claim as our own, it leaves the reader questioning just how free any of us truly are.
Author: D.H. Lawrence
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the heart of the English Midlands, in a cramped colliery household suffocating with tension and thwarted ambition, Paul Morel comes of age torn between the suffocating devotion of his mother and his desperate hunger for independence and love. Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence's landmark 1913 novel, chronicles the Morel family's bitter struggles — a brutal, hard-drinking father, a fiercely intelligent and emotionally consuming mother, and a sensitive son who finds himself unable to fully surrender to the women who love him — with a raw, unflinching intimacy that shattered the conventions of Edwardian fiction. Lawrence writes with a lyrical intensity that transforms the grime of working-class Nottinghamshire into a landscape of profound psychological and emotional conflict, dissecting the Oedipal bonds that bind and ultimately cripple Paul's capacity for love. Widely regarded as one of the greatest English-language novels of the twentieth century, Sons and Lovers illustrates Lawrence's extraordinary gift for rendering the interior life — its hungers, contradictions, and quiet devastations — with startling precision. A story about the love we cannot escape and the lives we struggle to claim as our own, it leaves the reader questioning just how free any of us truly are.