Seldom does it happen that an author's first work establishes him among the foremost writers of his time. Yet the appearance, in 1913, of Sons and Lovers forced immediate acclaim to D. H. Lawrence and became a portent of all the powerful and ecstatic novels that were later to come from his pen. Its intensity of feeling does not diminish with the passage of time and today it still holds, for that reason, its great popularity with a new generation of readers. Other novels in the Modern Library by D. H. Lawrence are The Rainbow (No. 1 28) and Women in Love (No. 68).