Summary
Sons andovers is a realistic novel developing two significant psychological themes. The first is the story of Paul Morel's beautiful but terrible relationship with his mother, who gives to him all her warmth because her husband has denied her theove she craves. The second is a study of attraction and repulsion inove, presented through Paul's relations with two quite different women, Clara and Miriam.
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was one of the most important and controversial novelists of the 20th century. His graphic writing about sex and class lead to bans of many of his most famous works, including Lady Chatterley's Lover, the subject of bans in both American and Britain until 1960.