Cover of Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers

4.5 · 10 ratings on Open Library

A young man from a working-class English coal miner’s family struggles to reconcile romantic and familial love.

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Length
161,000 words
Reading time
About 10 hours
Format
EPUB, DRM-free

About the book

Sons and Lovers, a story of working-class England, is D. H. Lawrence’s third novel. It went through various drafts, and was titled “Paul Morel” until the final draft, before being published and met with an indifferent reaction from contemporary critics. Modern critics now consider it to be D. H. Lawrence’s masterpiece, with the Modern Library placing it ninth in its “100 Best English-Language Novels of the 20th Century.”

The novel follows the Morels, a family living in a coal town, and headed by a passionate but boorish miner. His wife, originally from a refined family, is dragged down by Morel’s classlessness, and finds her life’s joy in her children. As the children grow up and start leading lives of their own, they struggle against their mother’s emotional drain on them.

This is the Standard Ebooks edition, carefully proofread and typeset, with a table of contents and linked footnotes.

What readers think

4.5 out of 5

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