Sons and Lovers

🔖 I tell you 1 have written a great book ... Read my novel, it is a great novel, Lawrence declared shortly before Sons and Lovers was published in 1913.Drawing on his own childhood and adolescence, Lawrence depicts the early married life of the Morels - the father a hardworking, hard-drinking Nottinghamshire coal miner, the mother a refined woman of middle-class aspirations. Born intothe family battle, their son Paul Morel initially takes his mother's part, until in adolescence he meets and falls in love with a young girl, Miriam, and discovers a new conflictSons and Lovers portrays the sexual and emotional struggle of Paul Morel, caught between the women he attempts to love, and in it D.H.Lawrence transforms autobiography into art.