Comparative Criticism: A Annual Journal

by D.H. Lawrence, Helen Baron (Editor), Carl Baron (Editor)

Sons and Lovers is about the over-emotional manipulation and possessiveness of a mother for her sons. The novel starts with the story of a woman who marries a coal-miner below her own class. This class difference creates distances in their relation and the woman dedicates her whole life to her children. The story takes an unexpected turn after a tragic accident. Engrossing!

388 pages, Hardcover

Published July 19, 2007

About the author

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct.

Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. He is now generally valued as a visionary thinker and a significant representative of modernism in English literature.
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Reviews

[E. Merrill Brouder · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliant portrait of wounded, unfulfillable love.

[Juliana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book when I was a junior in high school...That was twelve years ago, and it has still resonated with me...I need to re-visit this book though because I'm wondering how it will be after all these years. Even back then, I was drawn in by the complex interpersonal and psychological relationships amongst the characters...Thought-provoking...