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Sons and Lovers

by D.H. Lawrence

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Literary significance & criticism

In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Sons and Lovers ninth on a list of the 100 best novels in English of the 20th century.

It contains a frequently quoted use of the English dialect word "nesh". The speech of several protagonists is represented in Lawrence's written interpretation of the Nottinghamshire dialect[1], which also features in several of his poems [2].

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