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Sons and Lovers (Readings Classics)
[Paperback - 2025]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Classics
Publisher: Readings | ISBN: 9786275100270 | Pages: 292
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Paul Morel is a sensitive young artist who grew up in a working-class family dominated by his strong-willed mother, Gertrude. Trapped between loyalty to her and his desire for independence, Paul struggles to form lasting relationships. His bond with childhood friend Miriam is intense but emotionally stifling, while his affair with the passionate Clara offers freedom but no peace. As his mother’s health declines, her emotional hold tightens, blurring Paul’s sense of self. Grief, guilt, and desire collide and it becomes increasingly harder for Paul to choose his path.
Through richly drawn characters and evocative prose, Lawrence delves into themes of class, masculinity, and the psychological weight of family expectations. Sons and Lovers is not just a portrait of a young man’s growth, but a timeless study of the human heart caught between love, guilt, and the desire for self-realization.

D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence) was an English writer, playwright, poet, critic and painter. He was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, on 11 September 1885. Now considered one of the most important modernist writers of his time, he was often controversial during his life. His exploration of the dark side of human nature as well as his insight into the nature of love and sexuality, although remarkable and still illuminating today, were ahead of his time. The fact that his novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover was first published privately in Italy fairly hints at the condition of the English society of the day. Lawrence is said to have influenced many great writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner. He died of tuberculosis in Vence, France, on 2 March 1930.

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