Sons And Lovers
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the gritty, coal-dusted landscape of Nottinghamshire at the turn of the twentieth century, Sons and Lovers chronicles the turbulent inner life of Paul Morel — a sensitive, artistically gifted young man caught in the suffocating grip of his mother's devotion and his own desperate search for identity and passionate love. D.H. Lawrence's landmark 1913 novel presents a raw, unflinching portrait of working-class life, mapping the psychological battleground between Paul's fierce bond with his mother Gertrude and his relationships with two strikingly different women — the spiritual Miriam Leivers and the sensual, liberated Clara Dawes. The novel's central conflict is as elemental as it is intimate: can a man truly love another woman while his soul remains mortgaged to his mother? Widely regarded as one of the towering achievements of early modernist literature, Sons and Lovers illustrates Lawrence's genius for psychological realism and his revolutionary belief in the primacy of emotional and physical experience over social convention. Drawing heavily from his own autobiographical roots, Lawrence argues — with remarkable candour and lyrical intensity — that the wounds of childhood and class shape desire in ways that reason alone can never resolve. His prose is at once earthy and poetic, anchored in sensory detail yet alive with symbolic depth. A century after its publication, this profoundly human story continues to unsettle and illuminate, leaving the reader to wonder whether Paul Morel ever truly breaks free.
Author: D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the gritty, coal-dusted landscape of Nottinghamshire at the turn of the twentieth century, Sons and Lovers chronicles the turbulent inner life of Paul Morel — a sensitive, artistically gifted young man caught in the suffocating grip of his mother's devotion and his own desperate search for identity and passionate love. D.H. Lawrence's landmark 1913 novel presents a raw, unflinching portrait of working-class life, mapping the psychological battleground between Paul's fierce bond with his mother Gertrude and his relationships with two strikingly different women — the spiritual Miriam Leivers and the sensual, liberated Clara Dawes. The novel's central conflict is as elemental as it is intimate: can a man truly love another woman while his soul remains mortgaged to his mother? Widely regarded as one of the towering achievements of early modernist literature, Sons and Lovers illustrates Lawrence's genius for psychological realism and his revolutionary belief in the primacy of emotional and physical experience over social convention. Drawing heavily from his own autobiographical roots, Lawrence argues — with remarkable candour and lyrical intensity — that the wounds of childhood and class shape desire in ways that reason alone can never resolve. His prose is at once earthy and poetic, anchored in sensory detail yet alive with symbolic depth. A century after its publication, this profoundly human story continues to unsettle and illuminate, leaving the reader to wonder whether Paul Morel ever truly breaks free.