Sons and Lovers
by D.H. Lawrence · 1913
Literary Fiction · ranked #36 in category
Paul Morel, a sensitive young man in a Nottinghamshire mining town, is bound to his mother by an attachment that makes it almost impossible for him to love any other woman. Lawrence's semi-autobiographical novel charts Paul's struggle toward independence and is one of the foundational texts of psychological realism in English fiction.
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