Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence

Oxford University Press, UK, Mar 5, 1998 - Fiction - 576 pages

A powerful and engrossing tale of extremes and extremists, Women in Love (1920), follows the passionate relationships of Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen with their respective lovers, the ominous Gerald Crich and the charismatic but fragile Rupert Birkin. The abortive alliance between the two men and the couples' affairs are played out against the derangements of industrialism and the need to find new ways of living and better ways of dying. The introduction explores the impact on Lawrence of the violence of the First World War. - ;`New eyes were opened in her soul. She saw a strange creature from another world, in him. It was as if she were enchanted, and everything were metamorphosed.' In Women in Love (1920), Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, who first appeared in Lawrence's earlier novel, The Rainbow, take centre stage as Lawrence explores their growth and development in their relationships with two powerful men, Rupert Birkin and his friend Gerald Crich. A novel of regeneration and dark, destructive human passion, Women in Love reflects the impact on Lawrence of the First World War in the potential both for annihilation and salvation of the self. Quintessentially modernist, Women is Love is one of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative and unsettling works. -

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Review: Women in Love (Brangwen Family #2)

User Review  - Joanne Campbell - Goodreads

The prose was spine-tingling sometimes - poetic, wondrously constructed. Much better eroticism than graphic novels of today, a "pile of dirt" (an earlier critique back in the day) that today seems ...

Review: Women in Love (Brangwen Family #2)

User Review  - Bharati - Goodreads

Let me confess. I am a Lawrence fan. I adore the writer because of his guts. At a time when the world was going through a devastating phase of transition, Lawrence decided to spill the beans. He doesn ...

Bibliographic information

• Title: Women in Love; Oxford World's Classics
• Author: D. H. Lawrence
• Editor: David Bradshaw
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK, 1998
• ISBN: 0191611034, 9780191611032
• Length: 576 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General