Sons and Lovers, an earlier novel that ended up being his first major success as an author, is the sole publication of his issued by the LEC, and is given a classical treatment.Īnother debut to the oeuvre is artist Sheila Robinson, who also made her sole contribution to the Club with this edition.

Lawrence challenged the critique, however, and didn’t let the controversy derail his exploration in the arts and letters, even if he was harassed by police, the press, and the prudes of his age. The book was banned in multiple countries as pornography, which dogged him the rest of his life. Lawrence rose to prominence in the early 1900s as an English novelist and poet, causing a fair amount of scandal in his time for his risque Lady Chatterley’s Lover, one of the earliest mainstream literary books to explicitly detail its main character’s sexual encounters.

We haven’t deep dived too much into the post-Macy periods of the Club much on the blog, but this is one of the stronger editions issued from Cardevon I’ve come across, in my view.ĭ.H.

Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, an edition issued by Cardevon Press in 1975. Artwork: Illustrations by Sheila Robinsonįront Binding – Happy holidays, dear readers! I suppose I should have flipped the script a little and slid Hard Times into the December slot to keep my blog somewhat thematic - Dickens has seen a fair share of December posts, after all - but in a curious twist the actual book for this month does feature Christmas in it to some extent, so it’s not entirely off-base, haha.

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