Sons and Lovers
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in British literary classics and psychological fiction
- Literature students who want to read Lawrence's work in the original English
- Readers drawn to themes of family relations, growth, and emotional predicament
- Readers who prefer e-reading and want public-domain English classics
Not a good fit for
- Readers who only read Chinese translations and do not wish to read the English original
- Readers who prefer fast-paced plots and have limited patience for psychological description
- Beginners hoping to grasp Lawrence's entire achievement from this one book
Reading tips
- First learn about the social background of the English mining district at the time of publication, then begin reading.
- Trace chapter by chapter the changing relations between Paul and his mother and the two women, keeping brief notes.
- Attend to how passages of natural scenery correspond to the characters' emotions, and appreciate Lawrence's descriptive technique.
- After finishing, compare with the arc of Lawrence's other works to understand his early style.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence, 1885–1930) was an English novelist, poet and essayist. The library holds 25 of his works, including the novels Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and The Lost Girl, the short-story collections The Prussian Officer and England, My England, and the travel book Twilight in Italy. His writing often draws on mining and rural life and focuses on relations between men and women, class, and the pressure modern civilization places on individual vitality, with a candid style that is sensuous and psychologically searching, at once poetic and forceful. Because his work boldly touched on desire and social taboo, he was controversial in his lifetime and is now regarded as a major voice in twentieth-century English literature. Detailed information beyond his works is limited, so this note relies on the available works and established common knowledge.
