Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics: Sons and Lovers: Introduction by David Ellis (Hardcover)

from wiremonkey

I thought I had read this book but I hope to heaven that I didn't because I didn't remember a single thing from it. In pure Lawrence style, sometimes achingly lyrical, sometimes achingly annoying a...

from JudyCroome

First published more than a century ago (around 1913), it's no wonder that SONS & LOVERS has become a classic. The repetitiveness of the writing (if I had to read once more how "bitter" one of the ...

from kishields

I'm not a student of Lawrence and can get annoyed with his talkiness especially about the dynamics of love and sex. However, I loved this book for many reasons. First, the description of the coal m...

from Smiler69

This is my first D.H. Lawrence book, if you don't count Lady Chatterley's Lover, which I read in my early teens. I plunged in without doing any research first, and was therefore unaware that the st...

from missizicks

A story about love, relationships, and disappointments, told in rich language, evoking a time and a place in British history that is at once foreign and familiar. That specific way of life, the gri...