Paul Morel (Oneworld Modern Classics) - Tapa blanda

This early version of "Sons and Lovers", Lawrence's highly popular autobiographical novel, has never been published before. Amongst all the surviving early drafts of Lawrence's works this is the most different from the final version; as he rewrote, Lawrence discarded many episodes, some of them stories from his childhood not recorded anywhere else. It is less polished than "Sons and Lovers", but it is full of powerful, spontaneous, dramatic writing: there is more humor and charm, more raw violence and nervous energy. This volume also contains remarkable documents written by Lawrence's girlfriend Jessie Chambers, the model for Miriam in Paul Morel and in "Sons and Lovers", in which she gives Lawrence some hostile criticisms and writes out for him her own versions of some of his episodes. In addition there is a fragment of a novel about his mother's childhood, facsimiles of manuscript pages, maps, and scholarly notes and apparatus.

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English writer whose work often dealt with the theme of human sexuality, and suffered from censorship. At the time of his death Lawrence was seen by many as little more than a pornographer, but subsequently he has come to be regarded as a pioneer of English modernism, and one of the greatest writers of his generation.