By D.H. Lawrence, 1913, eBook Made by Pennsylvania State University

"... [a] book of rare excellence" -- The New York Times Book Review

Sons and Lovers is the third published novel of D.H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece. It tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and a budding artist. This autobiographical novel is a brilliant evocation of life in a working class mining community.

Lawrence rewrote the work four times until he was happy with it. Although before publication the work was usually called Paul Morel, Lawrence finally settled on Sons and Lovers. Just as this changed title makes the work less focused on a central character, many of the latter additions broadened the scope of the work thereby making the work less autobiographical. While some of the edits by Garnett were on the grounds of propriety or style, others would once more narrow the emphasis back upon Paul.

In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Sons and Lovers ninth on a list of the 100 best novels in English of the 20th century.

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Useful Links (From Answers.com):

Biographies

• Biography from the Literary Encyclopedia
• Detailed biography, chronology and other resources at The University of Nottingham
• Audio interview with Mark Kincaid-Weekes, concentrating on the middle years of Lawrence's life

Works

• Works by D. H. Lawrence at Project Gutenberg
• Online editions of works, from eBooks@Adelaide
• With the Guns, Lawrence's journalistic, and eerily prophetic, response to the start of the Great War
• Poetry Archive: 150 poems of D. H. Lawrence

Criticism

• "The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence" by Joyce Carol Oates (1974)
• "Lawrence's Götterdämmerung: The Apocalyptic Vision of Women in Love" by Joyce Carol Oates (1978)

Other

• Frieda Lawrence Collection
• D. H. Lawrence's Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
• The paintings of D. H. Lawrence
• Online exhibition, 'A Literary Legacy: D H Lawrence at the University of Nottingham'
• D. H. Lawrence information and events website, endorsed by the University of Nottingham'
• Review of John Worthen's biography of D. H. Lawrence, The Oxonian Review of Books

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