《儿子与情人》是英国作家戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯创作的一部长篇小说，是作者的半自传体作品。

　　书中的**代是瓦尔特·莫雷尔和格特鲁德夫妇。瓦尔特原本充满了活力，乐观、讨人喜欢；后来却脾气变坏，酗酒打人，成为行尸走肉。对丈夫失望的妻子遂将希望寄托在儿子身上。但是她钟爱的长子威廉不幸早夭，随之对次子保罗产生了强烈的感情。而保罗的两个女朋友却有不同的爱情观，让他无所适从。母亲去世后，保罗决定离开家乡，到城市去。至于保罗今后的人生道路怎么走，劳伦斯没有告诉我们答案。而这样模糊不清的结尾正反映了劳伦斯同样迷惘的心态：他所探索的两性之间的相处，进而拓展到人与人之间的关系，都是迷惘的。

　　小说中，劳伦斯通过现实主义和心理分析的写作方法，描写了十九世纪末叶英国工业社会中下层人民的生活和特定环境下母子间和两性间的复杂、变态的心理。他强调人的原始本能，把理智作为压抑天性的因素加以摒弃，主张充分发挥人的本能。劳伦斯还对英国生活中工业化物质文明和商业精神进行了批判。

Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long.

When the marriage between Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break down, the bitterness of their frustration seeps into their children's lives. Their second son, Paul, craves the warmth of family and community, but knows that he must sacrifice everything in the struggle for independence if he is not to repeat his parents' failure.

Lawrence's powerful description of Paul's single-minded efforts to define himself sexually and emotionally through relationships with two women -- the innocent, old-fashioned Miriam Leivers and the experienced, provocatively modern Clara Dawes -- makes this a novel as much for the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was for the beginning of the twentieth.