Vintage books Sons and Lovers Лоуренс Дэвид Герберт

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

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

The Penguin English Library Edition of Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence • '"She was a brazen hussy." • "She wasn't. - And she was pretty, wasn't she?" • "I didn't look ... And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes"' • The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age

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

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

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

Two sisters, two weddings, just months apart. These marriages produce a tangle of friends, relations and lovers that starts to unravel ten years later, during one intense week. Two of Bowen's most memorable characters are in attendance: Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gawky teenager with zero self-awareness. The sunset of prosperity is upon this complacent, moneyed class, but Bowen's precise and beautiful prose pins real pain and comedy upon its inhabitants

A novel which chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England • Set between the 1840s and the early years of the twentieth century The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, ancient occupiers of Marsh Farm, Nottinghamshire. Through courting, pregnancy, marriage and defiance Lawrence explores love and the conflicts it brings

This tender story of parents, children and step-children, mistakes and secrets was Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel and is considered her masterpiece • Set in the watchful society of Hollingford, this is a warm tale of love and longing. Molly Gibson is the spirited, loyal daughter of the local doctor. Their peaceful close-knit home is turned upside down when Molly's father decides to remarry. Whilst Molly struggles to adjust to her snobbish stepmother, she forms a close relationship with her glamorous new stepsister Cynthia. The strength of this friendship is soon tested as their lives become entwined with Squire Hamley and his two sons

Here is one of those rare novels, so captivatingly original, so absurdly funny, surprising and moving, that it crosses all boundaries • 1971: Mao's cultural Revolution is at its peak. Two sons of doctors, sent to 're-education' camps, forced to carry buckets of excrement up and down mountain paths, have only their sense of humour to keep them going. Although the attractive daughter of the local tailor also helps to distract them from the task at hand • The boys' true re-education starts, however, when they discover a hidden suitcase packed with the great Western novels of the nineteenth century. Their lives are transformed. And not only their lives: after listening to the stories of Balzac, the little seamstress will never be the same again