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.