Sons & Lovers

Sons & Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers is a novel by D.H. Lawrence, first published in 1913. It tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man growing up in a working-class family in Nottinghamshire, England. Paul's mother, Gertrude, is a strong-willed woman who is devoted to her sons, but her possessive love for them causes tension in the family. Paul's father, Walter, is a miner who is often away from home, leaving Gertrude to raise their sons alone. Paul's relationships with his mother and his two lovers, Miriam and Clara, are central to the novel. Paul's love for Miriam is passionate but ultimately unfulfilling, while his relationship with Clara is more practical and mature. As Paul struggles to find his place in the world, he must choose between his mother's possessive love and his own need for independence. In the end, Paul is forced to make a difficult decision that will shape the rest of his life.

By D.H. Lawrence · First published 1913 · Genre: Realistic Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Romance · 15 chapters · 164,569 words

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-"THE BOTTOMS" succeeded to "Hell Row". Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane. There lived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away. The brook ran under the alder trees, scarcely soiled by these small mines, whose coal was drawn to the surface by donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle round a gin. And all over the countryside were these same pits, some of which had been worked in the time of Charles II, the few colliers and the donkeys burrowing down like ants into the earth, making queer mounds and little black places among the corn-fields and the meadows. And the cottages of these coal-miners, in blocks and pairs here and there, together with odd farms and homes of the stockingers, straying over the parish, formed the village of Bestwood.

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