Sons and Lovers

Coal-town family life shapes every relationship in Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's early novel about a son caught between his mother's devotion and his own adult attachments. Lawrence draws on the mining districts of the English Midlands he grew up in, setting domestic tension against pit work, wages and class difference. The writing stays close to what its characters feel, which is why the book is so often set for study of psychological realism and of the family novel, and this Penguin Classics edition supplies a reliable text for that work. How it reads: • An English Midlands mining community rendered from firsthand knowledge • Intense family attachments examined without easy moral judgement • Prose that keeps hold of sensation, landscape and physical work • A standard text for university courses on early twentieth-century fiction Recommended for students of modern literature, reading groups and collectors of Lawrence, available at Boipoka.