Women in Love

by D. H. Lawrence (Author)

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From one of the 20th century's preeminent novelists and poets comes this passionate tale of romance amid the chaos of modern life. D. H. Lawrence's compelling account of two couples' search for romantic fulfillment is steeped in an edgy eroticism bordering on violence. The literary world reacted with shock upon its 1921 publication: nearly a century later, the novel's psychological penetration continues to captivate readers.
Women in Love reintroduces two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, who initially appeared in Lawrence's previous novel, The Rainbow (1915). Ursula's relationship with Rupert Birkin, an introspective and misanthropic school inspector, is contrasted with that of Gudrun and Gerald Crich, an overbearing industrialist. Set in a coal-mining town in the English Midlands, their stories explore the disastrous effects of industrialization on the psyche and suggest that rebirth can be achieved only through emotional intensity.
Composed at the height of the author's powers, Women in Love is the novel that Lawrence considered his masterpiece (the characters of Rupert and Ursula are widely regarded as Lawrence's depiction of himself and his wife, Frieda). Rich in symbolism and lyric prose, it offers a complex meditation on the meaning of love in a changing world.

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Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (January 15, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780486424583
ISBN-13: 978-0486424583
ASIN: 0486424588
Product Dimensions: 5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
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Alegra Loewenstein, Health Coach

The charming, hilarious, and throught provoking story of two sisters.

August 23, 2007

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This book is beautifully written. You could randomly pick almost any paragraph and read it and close the book and think to your self "wow, that was beautiful." It tells the story of sisters Gudrun and Brangwen, two young women in England who stand apart from the crowd and struggle with their quirky independence in a classist society.

Of course it isn't a gripper or a page turner. It took me over a year to finish reading this book. That's not to say it's not good-- on the contrary I say it's a testament to how good it is that I ever finished it. How many times have you put a book down for months and then returned to pick it up where you left off? I can think of one other book I did that with, but I did it several times with Women in Love.

It's slow, and in the beginning I couldn't really keep all the characters straight. But it's beautiful and it's hilarious! The langauge of the day, comsbined with the melodrama of Gudrun and Bragwen as they discuss the banal horror of spending the rest of their life with any of the men they know, is both charming and laugh-out-loud funny.

The book works as a period piece; you can see the structured class system of the England of the day nad the sisters who simply don't fit in with anyone.

The book also works as a philosophical piece; at times it reminds me of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. The chapters dedicated to the coal mines and the machine-like endeavors of the men who runs them must have inspired Ayn Rand's work.

This book is deifnitely worth reading, but perhaps best along side another book (or 10).

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John Day

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I like this book very much.

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November 27, 2014

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WOMEN IN LOVE - Crossing the Threshold into a New Age: Desire and Hope versus Fear and Despair

May 26, 2014

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LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, Lawrence's late masterpiece, tells the story of an adulterous love affair, replete with four-letter words and explicit sex scenes. Lawrence was virtually courting the censors, who responded as expected. This novel swamped Lawrence's reputation when I was in high school and college. I majored in English, but not one of my teachers ever mentioned the man, his art or his contribution to modern literature in those four years. But the summer after I graduated with my B. A. in English, Ken Russell's film adaptation of WOMEN IN LOVE was released in the U. S. To quote another writer, this film skinned my eyes! I immediately bought a copy of the novel and read it in fewer than two weeks of committed, even feverish immersion. It remains one of the essential reading experiences of my life, and two subsequent readings have not diminished its impact. I no longer find Russell's film to be an adequate dramatization of the book, but I'm still grateful that it provided what my education did not - an awareness of D. H. Lawrence's greatness as a modern writer. By greatness I mean Lawrence is essential reading for those who want to explore the new age of humanity which began after the cataclysm of World War I. Like other novels which can be read and re-read as literary thresholds guiding us, or pushing us into a new age (ULYSSES, THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, SEARCH FOR LOST TIME, THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES, THE SUN ALSO RISES, etc.), WOMEN IN LOVE has a polemic element as the author struggles to articulate what he sees as the mission of enlightened people in a world both damaged by losses and shining with possibilities. Lawrence is particularly sensitive in describing how and why some give up in fear and despair. You feel he was often struggling against defeatism, and using his writing as way of saving himself as well as others. D-E-S-I-R-E is the force within and without, in the psyche and in society, which can save both the individual from despair and begin the work of building a new humanity. There is no closure at the end of the novel; it is maddeningly open-ended. Lawrence is not proposing solutions; he is analyzing the modern situation through his characters who lead volatile, ever-changing, experimental lives. But the density and eloquence of his writing, both the narration and the dialogue, are so inspiring, you too will want to live the life of one of his seekers.

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Women in Love: A Classic Novel by the first Freudian novelists who plumbed the human id

August 21, 2007

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DH Lawrence was born in the coaltown of Eastwood located eight miles from Nottingham, England in the Midlands region of Great Britain. His father was feckless; his mother worshipped young Bert who was sensitive, reserved and bookish.
Lawrence grew up to leave this repressed environment to wander the world with his German wife Frieda. He remembered how the miners would enter the coalmines with clean clothes emerging hours later covered with black coal dust. Like those miners, Lawrence would also go "underground" exploring those human emotions we keep repressed. His themes were communication between the sexes concluding that we are basically alone in a godless universe. Plot and story are minimal in a Lawrence novel. The iconoclastic novelist was more interested in examining our motivations through stream of consciousness and dialgoue between his complex characters. These themes are evinced in "Women in Love" his brilliant sequel to "The Rainbow" dealingwith several generations of the Brangwen family.
The main characters in this 1920 novel are:
1. Ursula Brangwen: The plainer of the two Brangwen daughters. Ursula is a 26 year old teacher in a Midlands school. Her life is mundane. She is an intellectual who falls in love with the mecurial Rupert Birken.
Ursula is said to be a fictional recreation of Lawrence's wife Frieda.
She is fiercly independent but craves the warmth of a sexual/spiritual relationship with a man.
2. Gudrun Brangwen is the artistic sister of Brangwen. She is an art teacher in a local school. Gudrun has studied and worked abroad as a sculptress. She is artsy,loving life. Gudrun enters into a tempestuous affair with the owner of the town mining company. Her affair with the aristocratic Gerald Brangwen will end in tragedy. Gudrun wears bright clothing and is more outgoing than her sister Ursula. She too is independent wanting to go beyond sex or domestic life with a life partner.
She may have been based on Lawrence's New Zealand writer friend Katherine Mansfield.
3. Rupert Birkin is the fictionalized portrait of the author. Birkin is a school inspector who has a desire to create a new world free of the harsh Victorian conventional society he despises. His longtime lover is the wealthy Hermione. Birkin jilts the superficial Hermione for the enchanting and engimatic Ursula. As the novel ends he and Ursula are married, The Birkins leave England for a life of wandering much as did Frieda and D.H. Lawrence. Birkin, as well as Lawrence, hated modern industrialized society which made men and women into automatic machines in a souless society.
4. Gerald Crich is the owner of a large mining company in the area. Gerald can be very cruel as when he forces a horse he is astride to sit still while a train (the symbol of industrialized life) roars by to the dismay of the frightened creature. Crich is also seen strangling a rabbit. He has been a playboy with a mistress named Pussums. Crich has a torrid affair with Gudrud which ends in a tragedy. Crich is a handsome man who wants power in busines and his affair with Gudrud. He attempts to strangle her and control her every move. Crich is the least sympathetic and most tortured of the four major characters.
D.H. Lawrence's prose in this major novel is lyrical, poetic and detailed in its description of moods, nature and the emotions inherent to love. Lawrence knew the human psyche is a mine which needed exploration by a perceptive novelist. Lawrence is still worthy reading all of these years after the Brangwen girls story was first spun into gold by a literary giant.

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