Celebrated Translations -- Sons and Lovers (Color Illustrations Edition) (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: D.H. Lawrence
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: Sons and Lovers is the early most famous work of British writer D.H. Lawrence and also his breakthrough novel. It is a semi-autobiographical novel drawn from the author's childhood and youth. In this novel, Lawrence explores the variations of human nature and the distortion of the soul, and depicts the love between men and women from the perspective of Freudian theory, criticizing the destruction of human natural tendencies by Western modern industrial civilization. D.H. Lawrence is a renowned British novelist, poet, and essayist, one of the most important and controversial novelists of the 20th century, and one of the most talented and influential figures in the literary world of the 20th century. He is also one of the founders of 20th-century British fiction alongside E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf, and is one of the most familiar and beloved Western writers among Chinese readers. It is included in the list of "100 World Classics" selected by the American Book of the Year. Recommended as one of the "100 Outstanding English Novels of the 20th Century" by American literary critics. Recommended as one of the "Lifetime Reading Plan" by American cultural figure F. R. Leavis. This book is a semi-autobiographical novel by the British modernist writer D.H. Lawrence. It is said that the author initially titled the book Paul Morel, but later changed it to Sons and Lovers after his girlfriend reminded him of the Oedipal themes in the work. D.H. Lawrence himself is the prototype of the protagonist Paul Morel in the novel.