![]() With which the old-fashioned sentimental novel used to end, and with which the modern realistic one so frequently begins. Morel, belonged a trifle higher up in the social scale, having made one of those ''romantic'' marriages Paul's father was a miner his mother, Mrs. The scene is laid among the collieries of Derbyshire. ![]() ![]() It is portrayed tenderly, yet with a truthfulness which slurs nothing even of that friction which is unavoidable between the members of two different generations. The love for each other of the mother and her son, Paul Morel, is the mainspring of both their lives And the heroine of theīook is not sweetheart, but mother the mother with whose marriage the novel begins, with whose pathetic death it reaches its climax. Life, from his birth until his 25th year, the conditions surrounding him, his strength and his numerous weaknesses, put before us in a manner which misses no subtlest effect either of emotion or environment. It is hardly a story rather the first part of a man's There is probably no phrase much more hackneyed than that of ''human document,'' yet it is the only one which at all describes this very unusual book. September 21, 1913: ' Sons and Lovers' by D. The New York Times: Book Review Search Article ![]()
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