Sons and Lovers is a novel by D. H. Lawrence centering on the tension and conflict between maternal and romantic love. Gertrude Coppard falls for a lower-class man named Walter, from whom she drifts apart after their marriage. Instead, she loves and coddles her sons: first William, who has a failed engagement and dies, and next Paul, who has a failed relationship with Miriam and then Clara. After Gertrude dies, Paul abandons Clara and is left with nothing, his mother's love having always overshadowed all other relationships.
Sons And Lovers Sons and Lovers is considered one of the greatest English novels of the twentieth century Centred on the lives of an English rural family the novel explores issues relating to marriage family industrialism class and sexuality While the first sections of the book focus on the early marriage of Mr and Mrs Morel it is their second son Paul who comes to dominate the work Shy clever sensual and in many ways mirroring D H Lawrence himself Paul is an artist brought into the world as an
CHAPTER I INDRODUCTION ALDOUS HUXLEY AND THE MODERN NOVEL It is rightly said Aldous Huxleys writings express the disillusionment of the 1920s the cynicism of the 1930s and the questioning of the 1940s 45 Paul W P S Huxley was the product of the times and his novel and essays are the expression of his beliefs and concerns Huxley was twenty when the First World War began in 1914 His book of stories Limbo was published in 1920 and his last novel Island in 1962 His work covers forty there years whi