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Author: D. H. Lawrence
First Published: 1915
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Psychological realism
Time of Work: Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Setting: England
Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Freedom, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Alienation, Individuality, England or English people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Lace or lace making
Locales: Midlands, England

Tom Brangwen, a substantial English farmer. He is a lonely man leading a bachelor’s life, driven by his desires to sordid meetings with passing women and to frequent bouts with the brandy bottle, until his marriage to Lydia Lensky, a Polish widow whom he woos in an abrupt but successful courtship that rises above his own usual uncommunicativeness and a language barrier. Tom loves his wife, and he loves Anna, her small daughter. As the years pass, Tom becomes a kind of rural patriarch, watching his two sons, Tom and Fred, and Anna, his stepdaughter, grow...

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