With a new Introduction by Geoff DyerCommentary by Anthony Burgess Jessie Chambers Frieda Lawrence V.S.Pritchett Kate Millett and Alfred KazinOf all Lawrences w... » 

With a new Introduction by Geoff DyerCommentary by Anthony Burgess Jessie Chambers Frieda Lawrence V.S.Pritchett Kate Millett and Alfred KazinOf all Lawrences work Sons and Lovers tells us most about the emotionalsource of his ideas observed Diana Trilling. The famous Lawrence theme ofthe struggle for sexual powerand he is sure that all the struggles ofcivilized life have their root in this primary contestis the constantlyelaborated statement of the fierce battle which tore Lawrences family.Sons and Lovers is one of the landmark novels of the twentieth century. When itappeared in 1913 it was immediately recognized as the first great modernrestatement of the oedipal drama and it is now widely considered the majorwork of D. H. Lawrences early period. This intensely autobiographical novelrecounts the story of Paul Morel a young artist growing to manhood in aBritish workingclass family rife with conflict. The authors vivid evocationof the allconsuming nature of possessive love and sexual attraction makes thisone of his most powerful novels.For the critic Kate Millett Sons and Lovers is a great novel because it hasthe ring of something written from deeply felt experience. The past rememberedit conveys more of Lawrences own knowledge of life than anything else hewrote. His other novels appear somehow artificial beside it. «