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From Library Journal

The published editions of Women in Love , probably Lawrence's greatest novel,

have always been remarkably corrupt due to a lengthy, complex process of revision

and transcription, a threatened libel suit, and numerous unauthorized bowdlerizations.

The editors of this new Cambridge Edition have labored scrupulously to produce

an authoritative text. What emerges, if not dramatically different, is fresher

and more immediate. The introduction provides a valuable history of the novel's

composition, revision, publication, and reception, and though the elaborate textual

apparatus is strictly for advanced students of bibliography, the notes are splendid.

Lawrence's 1919 Foreword and two early discarded chapters are also included.

The recovery of a modern classic. Keith Cushman, Univ. of North Carolina,

Greensboro

Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From AudioFile

The relationship of four lovers and their beliefs are examined against the brutal

backdrop of a small mining town. Maureen O'Brien splendidly creates the tone and

tension of each character, dramatically accentuating the novel's theme of

the destructive nature of relationships. The narration proves equally expressive,

and O'Brien's voice has an entrancing lilt which complements each phrase.

Her sensitive, fluid performance reflects the evolving mood of the work.

The reading transports the listener to the world of the text with graceful dignity

which unlocks the power of this enlightened work. s.l.d.

(c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Book Description

Women in Love was written in the years before and during World War I.

Criticized for its exploration of human sexuality, the novel is filled with symbolism and poetry--and is compulsively entertaining.

The story opens with sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, characters who also appeared in The Rainbow, discussing marriage, then walking through a haunting landscape ruined by coal mines, smoking factories, and sooty dwellings. Soon Gudrun will choose Gerald, the icily handsome mining industrialist, as her lover; Ursula will become involved with Birkin, a school inspector--and an erotic interweaving of souls and bodies begins. One couple will find love, the other death, in Lawrence's lush, powerfully crafted fifth novel, one of his masterpieces and the work that may best convey his beliefs about sex, love, and humankind's ongoing struggle between the forces of destruction and life. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. Buy It at Lowest Price on Amazon

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Privately printed in 1920 and published commercially in 1921, Women in Love is the novel Lawrence himself considered his masterpiece. Set in the English Midlands, the novel traces the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and the men with whom they fall in love. All four yearn for fufillment in their romantic lives, yet struggle in a world that is increasingly violent and destructive. Commenting on the novel, which was composed in the midst of the First World War in 1916, Lawrence wrote, "The bitterness of the war may be taken for granted in the characters." Rich in symbolism and lyrical prose, Women in Love is a complex meditation on the meaning of love in the modern world.

The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Novel by D.H. Lawrence, privately printed in 1920 and published commercially in 1921. Following the characters Lawrence had created for The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love examines the ill effects of industrialization on the human psyche, resolving that individual and collective rebirth is possible only through human intensity and passion. Women in Love contrasts the love affair of Rupert Birkin and Ursula Brangwen with that of Gudrun, Ursula's artistic sister, and Gerald Crich, a domineering industrialist. Birkin, an introspective misanthrope, struggles to reconcile his metaphysical drive for self-fulfillment with Ursula's practical view of sentimental passion. Their love affair and eventual marriage are set as a positive antithesis to the destructive relationship of Gudrun and Crich. The novel also explores the relationship between Birkin and Crich. According to critics, Birkin is a self-portrait of Lawrence, and Ursula represents Lawrence's wife, Frieda. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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14 1.5-hour cassettes

Inside Flap Copy

With an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates

foreword by the author

Commentary by Carl van Doren, Rebecca West,

Aldous Huxley, and Henry Miller

It is . . . the world of the poets and the preponderance of the poet in [Lawrence] that is the key to his work. He magnified and deepened experience in the manner of a poet," wrote Ana?s Nin in 1934.

Privately printed in 1920 and published commercially in 1921, Women in Love is the novel Lawrence himself considered his masterpiece. Set in the English Midlands, the novel traces the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and the men with whom they fall in love. All four yearn for fufillment in their romantic lives, yet struggle in a world that is increasingly violent and destructive. Commenting on the novel, which was composed in the midst of the First World War in 1916, Lawrence wrote, "The bitterness of the war may be taken for granted in the characters." Rich in symbolism and lyrical prose, Women in Love is a complex meditation on the meaning of love in the modern world.

To the critic Alfred Kazin, "No other writer of [Lawrence's] imaginative standing has in our time written books that are so open to life."

D. H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930), the son of a coal miner and a lace worker, completed his formal studies at University College, Nottingham, in 1908 and began teaching at a boys' school. By 1912, he had abandoned teaching to write full-time. His novels include The White Peacock (1911), The Trespasser (1912), Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), The Plumed Serpent (1926), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), which was banned as pornographic in England until 1960.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author

David Ellis is the author of Lawrence's Non-Fiction: Art, Thought and Genre and Wordsworth, Freud and the Spots of Time. He has been commissioned to write Volume HI of the New Cambridge biography of Lawrence.

Excerpted from Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence. Copyright ? 1995. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved

She disengaged herself, softly, and rose up a little to look at him. There was a faint light, it seemed to her, in the room. She could just distinguish his features, as he slept the perfect sleep. In this darkness, she seemed to see him so distinctly. But he was far off, in another world. Ah, she could shriek with torment, he was so far off, and perfected, in another world. She seemed to look at him as at a pebble far away under clear dark water. And here was she, left with all the anguish of consciousness, whilst he was sunk deep into the other element of mindless, remote, living shadow-gleam. He was beautiful, far-off, and perfected. They would never be together. Ah, this awful, inhuman distance which would always be interposed between her and the other being!

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