A Nottinghamshire miner's son, bound by an intense attachment to his refined mother, struggles to form independent romantic and adult identity through his loves for Miriam and Clara.
Books mentioned in Sons and Lovers (9)
Tartarin de Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet: “After tea she stood hesitating at the bookshelf. He took "Tartarin de Tarascon".”
Colomba by Prosper Merimee: “She wanted to learn, thinking that if she could read, as Paul said he could read, "Colomba", or the "Voyage autour de ma Chambre", the world would have a different face for her and a deepened respect.”
Voyage autour de ma Chambre by Xavier de Maistre: “She wanted to learn, thinking that if she could read, as Paul said he could read, "Colomba", or the "Voyage autour de ma Chambre", the world would have a different face for her and a deepened respect.”
Macbeth by William Shakespeare: “And later, Miriam drew them together, and they read Macbeth out of penny books, taking parts.”
The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott: “She can do nowt but go about thinkin' herself somebody. 'The Lady of the Lake.”
Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: “You remind me of Elaine in the 'Idylls of the King'.”
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe: “The lady—Mrs. Dawes—it ought to be Mrs. The Raven that quothed 'Nevermore.'”
A Thousand and One Nights: “His life-story, like an Arabian Nights, was told night after night to his mother.”
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám: “Almost immediately he replied to her from Nottingham, sending her at the same time a little "Omar Khayyám."”
Books that mention Sons and Lovers (2)
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway: “I liked Sons and Lovers and The White Peacock”
Outline by Rachel Cusk: “an essay about Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence, the book that has inspired me more than anything else in my life”