Women in Love 9780141441542 Paperback

Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence’s greatest novel,Women in Loveis both a lucid account of English society before the First World War, and a brilliant evocation of the inexorable power of human desire.Women in Lovecontinues whereThe Rainbowleft off, with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships, Ursula’s with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, and Gudrun’s with industrialist Gerald Crich, and later with a sculptor, Loerke. Quintessentially modernist,Women is Loveis one of Lawrence’s most extraordinary, innovative and unsettling works.In his introduction Amit Chaudhuri discusses Lawrence’s style and imagery. This introduction also includes a chronology of Lawrence’s life and work, further reading, notes and appendices containing the original foreword toWomen in Love, a fragment of ‘The Sisters’, ‘Prologue’ and ‘Wedding’ chapters from an earlier draft, a map and discussion of the setting and people involved.With an introduction by Amit Chaudhuri.’His genius was for instant perception and vivid, passionate expression’The Times’His masterpiece … Lawrence compels us to admit that we live less finely than we should’New YorkReview of Books