Sons and Lovers

The Modern Library placed it ninth on their list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is a novel telling the story of Paul Morel a young man and budding artist striving to win free from his old life. When Paul falls in love with a local girl Miriam his mother disapproves and Paul is forced to choose between them. Sons and Lovers is an intense examination of family class and love set in a small mining town in the early 1900s. D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist poet playwright essayist literary critic and painter whose works represent a reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In his writings Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality spontaneity and instinct often apposing current social acceptance.