Sons and Lovers herman a gentleman who is sent

a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for killing his wife

introverted Count von O- arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito

The glittering waters

all her own

as a kind of coffin

Sons and Lovers herman a gentleman who is sentAs 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 poverty like their father. Yet soon William falls ill, and Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating influence through a series of relationships. Closely autobiographical,