Part of Alma Classics' Evergreens series of popular classics,Sons and Lovers is presented here with an extensive critical apparatus and extra material, including a section of photographs and notes.As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a battleground. Gertrude turns increasingly towards her two eldest sons, William and Paul, and determines that they will not grow up to be coal miners living in pover