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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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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1913 · 1910s
Author
D.H. Lawrence
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