Sons and lovers

By David Herbert Lawrence

Subjects: Fiction, coming of age, England, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, general, Large type books, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Mothers and sons, fiction

Description: Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life.