PENGUIN CLASSICS : PENGUIN CLASSICS SONS AND LOVERS – D. H. LAWRENCE-CARL BARON-HELEN BARON-BLAKE MORRISON

The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul – determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother s suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age. Set in Lawrence s native Nottinghamshire, Sons and Lovers (1913) is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.