Women in Love - Softcover

Ross, Charles; Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140182217 ISBN 13: 9780140182217

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1989

Synopsis

"An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expressions which greeted the publication of "Women in Love". Yet Lawrence regarded this novel as his best book and F. R. Leavis considered it Lawrence's supreme masterpiece. The novel tells of the relationships of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, who live in a Midland colliery town in the years before the First World War. Ursula falls in love with Birkin (a thinly disguised portrait of Lawrence himself) and Gudrun has an intense but tragic affair with Gerald, the son of a local colliery owner.

About this title

Review:

"The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." -- E.M. Forster

Book Description:

This edition of Women in Love clears the text of literally thousands of accumulated errors allowing its readers to read and understand the novelist's work as Lawrence himself created it. The introduction gives a full history of the novel's composition, revision, publication and reception, and notes explain allusions and references.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140182217
• ISBN 13: 9780140182217
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 608