Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English
language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No
writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies
enforced by a tightly-knit mining community and by a family where
feelings are never hidden for long. When the marriage between
Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break
down, the bitterness of their frustration seeps into their
children's lives. Their second son, Paul, craves the warmth of
family and community, but knows that he must sacrifice everything
in the struggle for independence if he is not to repeat his
parents' failure. Lawrence's powerful description of Paul's
single-minded efforts to define himself sexually and emotionally
through relationships with two women - the innocent, old-fashioned
Miriam Leivers and the experienced, provocatively modern Clara
Dawes - makes this a novel as much for the beginning of the
twenty-first century as it was for the beginning of the twentieth.
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