Sons and Lovers - ebook

According to Wikipedia: "David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885 – 1930) was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct. Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." ... E. M. Forster ... describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation."... critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness..."