Sons and Lovers: David Lawrence

The Penguin English Library Edition of Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

`"She was a brazen hussy."
"She wasn`t. - And she was pretty, wasn`t she?"
"I didn`t look ... And tell your girls, my son, that when they`re running after you, they`re not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes"`

The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother`s suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age. Set in Lawrence`s native Nottinghamshire, Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.

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