Product Description

Women in Love is widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel. The novel continues where The Rainbow left 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, though he gives that up, and Gudrun's with Gerald Crich, an industrialist, and later with a sculptor, Loerke.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46787 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

About the Author
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist, storywriter, critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. Among his works, Sons and Lovers appeared in 1913, The Rainbow in 1915, Women In Love in 1920, and many others. Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta in 1962. He has contributed fiction, poetry and reviews to numerous publications including The Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Yorker and Granta magazine. He is editor of The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, published in 2001. His most recent book is St. Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005).

Customer Reviews

Lawrence's Best
This is regarded as Lawrence's greatest work of literature and I find it difficult to disagree. The book is insightful, superbly written and delves deep into the familiar Lawrence areas of sex, sexuality, love, social class, & materialism. It is also written before Lawrence became embittered with society, which shows in his later works. Although the book is best (as it always is), there is also a great film of the book directed by Ken Russell and starring Oliver Reed. If you're new to Lawrence I would suggest going for `The Rainbow', `Selected Short Stories' or `Sons and Lovers' before tackling this.

I like writing reviews it makes me fell intelligent!
I seriously loved this book! It wasn't the typical romance novel i assumed it to be when i first piked it up. I don't at all agree with my fellow reviewer that it was at times sexist! The women in it were completely independent making their own decisions and moulding their own careers although writing this i do see that they were portrayed as more scheming an in worse light than the men.

It is a great reflection of the time it was written and shocking for a modern reader to see how far socially since ww1 we've moved on in terms of openness about sex and sexuality as well as the relevance of the traditional home and family, i also feel many of the questions brought up in the novel are as relevant today as they were when it was written.

It's a book well worth a read, brilliantly written and at times the tension between characters is excruciating.

Major novel, major introduction
This is a serious edition of a very serious novel. It's harder to take Women in Love as seriously now as people did in the 1960s -- some of it seems objectionably sexist, some just bizarre -- but it's still an absorbing read, and David Bradshaw's introduction really helps to make sense of it all. He writes like a duck on elastic, which is terrific.