Sons And Lovers
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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At the heart of a grimy Nottinghamshire mining town, a fierce battle of love and loyalty plays out across generations — Sons and Lovers is D.H. Lawrence's searingly autobiographical masterpiece, chronicling the life of Paul Morel, a sensitive young artist trapped between a possessive, emotionally consuming mother and the two very different women who compete for his heart. Gertrude Morel, disillusioned by her coarse and increasingly brutal husband, pours all of her ambition and passion into her sons — particularly Paul — forging a bond so intense it threatens to suffocate every other relationship he dares to pursue. With raw psychological honesty, Lawrence details Paul's turbulent affairs with the ethereal, spiritually intense Miriam and the passionate, free-spirited Clara, mapping the treacherous terrain of desire, class, and identity in Edwardian England. Published in 1913, Sons and Lovers stands as one of the towering achievements of early 20th-century literature, widely regarded as the first great psychological novel in the English language. Lawrence's prose is visceral and lyrical in equal measure, grounding sweeping emotional truths in the textures of working-class life — coal dust, kitchen fires, and the relentless Midlands landscape. Drawing heavily on Freudian ideas of the Oedipal complex before they were widely understood, the novel argues that the wounds of childhood and maternal love can distort a man's capacity for intimacy in ways he can scarcely comprehend. A century on, Paul Morel's struggle to break free — or his haunting inability to do so — remains as urgent and as devastating as ever.
Author: D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of a grimy Nottinghamshire mining town, a fierce battle of love and loyalty plays out across generations — Sons and Lovers is D.H. Lawrence's searingly autobiographical masterpiece, chronicling the life of Paul Morel, a sensitive young artist trapped between a possessive, emotionally consuming mother and the two very different women who compete for his heart. Gertrude Morel, disillusioned by her coarse and increasingly brutal husband, pours all of her ambition and passion into her sons — particularly Paul — forging a bond so intense it threatens to suffocate every other relationship he dares to pursue. With raw psychological honesty, Lawrence details Paul's turbulent affairs with the ethereal, spiritually intense Miriam and the passionate, free-spirited Clara, mapping the treacherous terrain of desire, class, and identity in Edwardian England. Published in 1913, Sons and Lovers stands as one of the towering achievements of early 20th-century literature, widely regarded as the first great psychological novel in the English language. Lawrence's prose is visceral and lyrical in equal measure, grounding sweeping emotional truths in the textures of working-class life — coal dust, kitchen fires, and the relentless Midlands landscape. Drawing heavily on Freudian ideas of the Oedipal complex before they were widely understood, the novel argues that the wounds of childhood and maternal love can distort a man's capacity for intimacy in ways he can scarcely comprehend. A century on, Paul Morel's struggle to break free — or his haunting inability to do so — remains as urgent and as devastating as ever.