Penguin Sons and Lovers Лоуренс Дэвид Герберт

Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude Morel devotes her life to her sons. But conflict is inevitable when Paul seeks relationships with women to escape the suffocating grasp of his mother. As profoundly affecting today as it was nearly a century ago, this is the peerless Lawrence at his most personal • For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators

Роман «Сыновья и любовники» — первое серьезное произведение Дэвида Герберта Лоуренса (1885—1930), принесшее молодому писателю всемирное признание. Роман о сложных семейных отношениях, где мать, разочаровавшись в любви, переносит всю свою нерастраченную нежность на сыновей, а это позднее провоцирует драму в жизни младшего сына. Привязанность к матери вступает в конфликт с его влечением к девушкам и женщинам. Любить кого-то, кроме матери, для него равносильно предательству, а избавиться от оков, в которые сам себя заковал, очень трудно • Книга на английском языке • Sons and Lovers (1913) is the semi-autobiographical story of a young man's struggle for emotional independence • Trapped in a violent, loveless marriage to a man she considers socially inferior, Gertrude Morel devotes herself to her sons, William and Paul

Published in 1913, Lawrence’s closely autobiographical first major novel is set in the coal-mining villages where he spent his own childhood and youth. The novel traces with passionate sensitivity Paul Morel’s growing up into adulthood and the frustrations of his love for Miriam and Clara caused by his mother’s possessiveness and his devotion to her

As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude Morel begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a battleground. Gertrude turns increasingly towards her two eldest sons, William and Paul, and determines that they will not grow up to be coal miners living in poverty like their father. Yet soon William falls ill, and Paul seeks to escape his mother’s suffocating influence through a series of relationships • Closely autobiographical, and widely regarded as Lawrence’s finest achievement, Sons and Lovers is the affecting portrait of a mining family torn apart by class divisions and the conflict between filial love and the urge to follow one’s own desires

Set in 1900s, this is a lushly descriptive and highly autobiographical portrayal of a young man growing up in class-divided Nottingham • Paul Morel is the focus of his disappointed and fiercely protective mother's life. Their tender, devoted and intense bond comes under strain when Paul falls in love with Miriam Leivers, a local girl his mother disapproves of. The arrival of the provocatively modern Clara Dawes causes further tension and Paul is torn between his individual desires and family allegiances • Set in a Nottinghamshire mining town at the turn of the twentieth century, this is a powerful portrayal of family and love in all its forms

Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It reveals his delighted response to a new landscape and people and his uncanny ability to transmute the spirit of place into literary art. Like his other travel writings the book is also a shrewd inquiry into the political and social values of an era which saw the rise of communism and fascism

One of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned in England and the United States after its initial publication in 1928. The unexpurgated edition did not appear in America until 1959, after one of the most spectacular legal battles in publishing history • With her soft brown hair, lithe figure and big, wondering eyes, Constance Chatterley is possessed of a certain vitality. Yet she is deeply unhappy; married to an invalid, she is almost as inwardly paralyzed as her husband Clifford is paralyzed below the waist. It is not until she finds refuge in the arms of Mellors the game-keeper, a solitary man of a class apart, that she feels regenerated. Together they move from an outer world of chaos towards an inner world of fulfillment

In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty • Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. In Sea and Sardina, Lawrence brings to life the vigorous spontaneity of a society as yet untouched by the deadening effect of industrialization. And Etruscan Places is a beautiful and delicate work of literary art, the record of "a dying man drinking from the founts of a civilization dedicated to life."

О книгах Дэвида Герберта Лоуренса много спорили и при его жизни, и в последующие годы. Лоуренсом, чье имя стоит • в одном ряду с именами Джеймса Джойса, Томаса Стернза Элиота и Вирджинии Вулф, восхищались и возмущались, • его превозносили и ниспровергали, его романами зачитывались и объявляли их непристойными. Но всегда очевидным • оставалось одно: Лоуренс, автор романов «Радуга», «Влюбленные женщины», «Любовник леди Чаттерли» и многих других, — • один из крупнейших английских писателей XX века • В настоящее издание наряду с двумя лучшими романами писателя — «Сыновья и любовники» и «Любовник леди Чаттерли» — • вошли также созданные Лоуренсом рассказы

Констанс Чаттерли чувствует себя пойманной в ловушку своего бесполого брака с инвалидом сэром Клиффордом. Неспособный удовлетворить свою жену эмоционально или физически, Клиффорд поощряет ее к связи с мужчиной их класса. Но вместо этого Конни увлекается егерем своего мужа и заводит страстный роман, который привносит новую жизнь в ее подавленное существование. Сможет ли она найти истинное равенство с Меллорсом, несмотря на огромную пропасть между их положением в обществе? Один из самых противоречивых романов в английской литературе "Любовник леди Чаттерли" Дэвида Лоуренса представляет собой эротически насыщенное и психологически мощное изображение отношений взрослых • Книга на английском языке • Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design

Set in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow revolves around three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than sixty years, setting them against the emergence of modern England. When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish widow and adopts her daughter as his own, he is unprepared for the conflict and passion that erupt. Suffused with biblical imagery, The Rainbow addresses searching human issues in a setting of precise and vivid detail • For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators

D.H. Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten stories shows the variety of his achievement as the works develop from an early realism towards myth and fairy tale, murder, and ghost stories • For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators