Sons and Lovers-Fast Shipping

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

With a new Introduction by Geoff Dyer
Commentary by Anthony Burgess, Jessie Chambers,Frieda Lawrence, V.S. Pritchett, Kate Millett, and Alfred Kazin

Of all Lawrence’swork,
Sons and Lovers tells us most about the emotional source of his ideas,” observedDiana Trilling. “The famous Lawrence theme of the struggle for sexual power–andhe is sure that all the struggles of civilized life have their root in this primarycontest–is the constantly elaborated statement of the fierce battle which tore Lawrence’sfamily.”

Sons and Lovers is one of the landmark novels of the twentieth it appeared in 1913, it was immediately recognized as the first great modernrestatement of the oedipal drama, and it is now widely considered the major workof D. H. Lawrence’s early period. This intensely autobiographical novel recountsthe story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing to manhood in a British working-classfamily rife with conflict. The author’s vivid evocation of the all-consuming natureof possessive love and sexual attraction makes this one of his most powerful novels.

For the critic Kate Millett, “
Sons and Lovers is a great novel because it has thering of something written from deeply felt experience. The past remembered, it conveysmore of Lawrence’s own knowledge of life than anything else he wrote. His other novelsappear somehow artificial beside it.”