Sons and Lovers: (RED edition) (Penguin Classics)

sons And Lovers Is One Of The Landmark Novels Of The Twentieth Century. It Was Immediately Recognized As The First Great Modern Restatement Of The Oedipal Drama When It Appeared In 1913 And Is Widely Considered The Major Work Of D. H. Lawrence's Early Period.

new York Times Book Review

there Is Probably No Phrase Much More Hackneyed Than That Of 'human Document,' Het It Is The Only One Which At All Describes This Very Unusual Book. . . . Although This Is A Novel Of Over 500 Closely Printed Pages The Style Is Terse -- So Terse That At Times It Produces An Effect As Of Short, Sharp Hammer Strokes. Yet It Is Flexible, Too, As Shown By Its Success In Depicting Varying Shades Of Mood, In Expressing Those More Intimate Emotions Which Are So Very Nearly Inexpressible. -- book Of The Century; New York Times Review, September 1913