PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY : SONS AND LOVERS PB B FORMAT – D. H. LAWRENCE

The Penguin English Library Edition of Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence She was a brazen hussy. She wasn t. – And she was pretty, wasn t she? I didn t look … And tell your girls, my son, that when they re running after you, they re not to come and ask your mother for you – tell them that – brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes 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 is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations. The Penguin English Library – 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.