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Women in Love

Introduction by David Ellis

By D.H. Lawrence
Foreword by D.H. Lawrence
Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates

By D.H. Lawrence
Foreword by D.H. Lawrence
Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates

By D.H. Lawrence

By D.H. Lawrence

By D. H. Lawrence
Introduction by David Ellis

By D. H. Lawrence
Introduction by David Ellis

By D.H. Lawrence

By D.H. Lawrence

By D.H. Lawrence

By D.H. Lawrence

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Part of Modern Library 100 Best Novels

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    About Women in Love

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

    With an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
    foreword by the author
    Commentary by Carl van Doren, Rebecca West,
    Aldous Huxley, and Henry Miller

    It is . . . the world of the poets and the preponderance of the poet in [Lawrence] that is the key to his work. He magnified and deepened experience in the manner of a poet,” wrote Anaïs Nin in 1934.
            Privately printed in 1920 and published commercially in 1921, Women in Love is the novel Lawrence himself considered his masterpiece. Set in the English Midlands, the novel traces the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and the men with whom they fall in love. All four yearn for fufillment in their romantic lives, yet struggle in a world that is increasingly violent and destructive. Commenting on the novel, which was composed in the midst of the First World War in 1916, Lawrence wrote, “The bitterness of the war may be taken for granted in the characters.” Rich in symbolism and lyrical prose, Women in Love is a complex meditation on the meaning of love in the modern world.
            To the critic Alfred Kazin, “No other writer of [Lawrence’s] imaginative standing has in our time written books that are so open to life.”

    D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930), the son of a coal miner and a lace worker, completed his formal studies at University College, Nottingham, in 1908 and began teaching at a boys’ school. By 1912, he had abandoned teaching to write full-time. His novels include The White Peacock (1911), The Trespasser (1912), Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), The Plumed Serpent (1926), and Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), which was banned as pornographic in England until 1960.

    About Women in Love

    Perhaps no other of the world’s great writers lived and wrote with the passionate intensity of D. H. Lawrence. And perhaps no other of his books so explores the mysteries between men and women–both sensual and intellectual–as Women in Love. Written in the years before and during World War I in a heat of great energy, and criticized for its exploration of human sexuality, the book is filled with symbolism and poetry–and is compulsively readable.

    It opens with sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, characters who also appeared in The Rainbow, discussing marriage, then walking through a haunting landscape ruined by coal mines, smoking factories, and sooty dwellings. Soon Gudrun will choose Gerald, the icily handsome mining industrialist, as her lover; Ursula will become involved with Birkin, a school inspector–and an erotic interweaving of souls and bodies begins. One couple will find love, the other death, in Lawrence’s lush, powerfully crafted fifth novel, one of his masterpieces and the work that may best convey his beliefs about sex, love, and humankind’s ongoing struggle between the forces of destruction and life.

    About Women in Love

    Widely considered the best novel from one of the best writers of the twentieth century, this “astonishing work” (The New York Review of Books) continues where The Rainbow left off, revealing a powerful portrayal of two couples dynamically engaged in a struggle with themselves, with each other, and with life’s intractable limitations.         

    The sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, whom we first met in Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow, here become involved with two close friends: Rupert, an intellectual school inspector; and Gerald, the wealthy heir to a mine owner. The turbulent relationships that result—chronicled with an emotional and sexual frankness that provoked controversy on the book’s publication in 1920—take the characters from an English landscape of coal mines and sooty factories to the snowy heights of the Alps, where tragedy strikes.

    Women in Love was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the novel, a sense of background danger, of lurking catastrophe, continually informs its drama. Lawrence was a powerful, prophetic writer, but in addition he brought such delicacy to his treatment of the human and natural worlds that E. M. Forster’s claim that he was the greatest imaginative novelist of his generation does him too little justice rather than too much.

    About Women in Love

    Women in Love begins one blossoming spring day in England and ends with a terrible catastrophe in the snow of the Alps. Ursula and Gudrun are very different sisters who become entangled with two friends, Rupert and Gerald, who live in their hometown. The bonds between the couples quickly become intense and passionate but whether this passion is creative or destructive is unclear.

    In this astonishing novel, widely considered to be D.H. Lawrence’s best work, he explores what it means to be human in an age of conflict and confusion. It was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the novel, a sense of background danger, of lurking catastrophe, continually informs its drama of two couples dynamically engaged in a struggle with themselves, with each other, and with life’s intractable limitations.

    Lawrence was a powerful, prophetic writer, but in addition he brought such delicacy to his treatment of the human and natural worlds that E. M. Forster’s claim that he was the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation does him too little justice rather than too much.

    (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

    About Women in Love

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

    D.H. Lawrence’s magnificent exploration of human sexuality in the days surrounding World War I. ‘Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions,’ wrote D.H. Lawrence in Women In Love, a masterpiece that heralded the erotic consciousness of the twentieth century. Echoing elements of Lawrence’s own life, Women In Love delves into the mysteries between men and women as two couples strive for love against a haunting backdrop of coal
    mines, factories, and a beleaguered working class.

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    About D.H. Lawrence

    D. H. Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature, was born on September 11, 1885, in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to… More about D.H. Lawrence

    About D.H. Lawrence

    D. H. Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature, was born on September 11, 1885, in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to… More about D.H. Lawrence

    About D. H. Lawrence

    The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published… More about D. H. Lawrence

    About D.H. Lawrence

    D. H. Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature, was born on September 11, 1885, in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to… More about D.H. Lawrence

    About D.H. Lawrence

    D. H. Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature, was born on September 11, 1885, in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to… More about D.H. Lawrence

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Romance

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Jan 04, 2000 | 576 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375754883

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Romance

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Feb 01, 1996 | 624 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553214543

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Romance

    Hardcover | $26.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Jun 02, 1992 | 475 Pages | ISBN 9780679409953

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Romance

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Sep 25, 2007 | 624 Pages | ISBN 9780553904192

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Romance

    Ebook | $3.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 01, 2000 | 576 Pages | ISBN 9780679641667

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