Sons and lovers / D.H. Lawrence.
By: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert).
Material type: BookSeries: Wordsworth classics: Publisher: Ware : Wordsworth, 1993Description: 366 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 1853260479 .Subject(s): Working class families -- England -- Fiction | Young men -- England -- Fiction | Domestic fictionDDC classification: 823.912Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 823.912 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00010236 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury.
'When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life'.Richard Aldington
This novel is Lawrence's semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers.
Lawrence's novels are perhaps the most powerful exploration in the genre in English of family, class, sexuality and relationships in youth and early adulthood.
First published: 1913.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. vii)
- Part 1
- 1. The Early Married Life of the Morels (p. 3)
- 2. The Brith of Paul, and Another Battle (p. 28)
- 3. The Casting Off of Morel--The Taking on of William (p. 46)
- 4. The Young Life of Paul (p. 58)
- 5. Paul Launches Into Life (p. 83)
- 6. Death in the Family (p. 113)
- Part 2
- 7. Lad-and-Girl Love (p. 143)
- 8. Strife in Love (p. 180)
- 9. Defeat of Miriam (p. 215)
- 10. Clara (p. 251)
- 11. The Test on Miriam (p. 276)
- 12. Passion (p. 299)
- 13. Baxter Dawes (p. 338)
- 14. The Release (p. 375)
- 15. Derelict (p. 406)
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CHOICE Review
Having published the first six of a seven-volume edition of Lawrence's letters and the first of a three-volume biography, Cambridge University Press is also engaged in publishing new editions of his works, because previous editions "are, for the most part, textually corrupt." The purpose is "to provide texts which are as close as can now be determined to those he would have wished to see printed." He accepted, but did not approve of, the cutting of about 10% of Sons and Lovers by his editor, Edward Garnett, because Lawrence wanted the novel published. This new edition restores all of Garnett's cuts to Lawrence's final manuscript, "which is emended to incorporate Lawrence's proof revisions." Interestingly, the kinds and numbers of cuts, analyzed thoroughly in the 60-page introduction, which discusses every major stage of the novel, were made primarily to reduce the book to then saleable length rather than to censor explicit passages, though a few such passages were omitted or reworded. There are two appendixes (Lawrence's "Foreward" to the novel and information about the locales it mentions), 71 pages of notes, a 4-page dialect glossary, and 82 pages of textual variants in the different versions of the novel, starting with the final manuscript. Simultaneously published is a nonscholarly form of this new edition (priced at $24.95) that has a very brief foreward outlining three major kinds of cuts made by Garnett. J. E. Steiner; Drew UniversityKirkus Book Review
When Sons and Lovers was first seen by its reading public in 1913, its publishers had in fact, out of caution and timidity, shortened Lawrence's originally submitted version by about ten percent--cuts that are restored in this new ``uncensored and uncut'' edition. Complexity of characterization, intensity of characters' confrontations, and sexual frankness are now, say the publishers, as the author intended them. Example: ``He could smell her faint perfume'' returns to its original, ``He could smell her faint natural perfume, and it drove him wild with hunger.''Author notes provided by Syndetics
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885. His father was a coal miner and Lawrence grew up in a mining town in England. He always hated the mines, however, and frequently used them in his writing to represent both darkness and industrialism, which he despised because he felt it was scarring the English countryside.Lawrence attended high school and college in Nottingham and, after graduation, became a school teacher in Croyden in 1908. Although his first two novels had been unsuccessful, he turned to writing full time when a serious illness forced him to stop teaching. Lawrence spent much of his adult life abroad in Europe, particularly Italy, where he wrote some of his most significant and most controversial novels, including Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterly's Lover. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, who had left her first husband and her children to live with him, spent several years touring Europe and also lived in New Mexico for a time.
Lawrence had been a frail child, and he suffered much of his life from tuberculosis. Eventually, he retired to a sanitorium in Nice, France. He died in France in 1930, at age 44. In his relatively short life, he produced more than 50 volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel journals, and letters, in addition to the novels for which he is best known.
(Bowker Author Biography)