Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence

Title:Women in Love
Original:Women in Love
Category: Novel
Author:D. H. Lawrence
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Year: 2008
Pgs. 363
Weight: 0.330 kg
ISBN:185326007X
This book is in English

About the book

Lawrence’s finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity. Women in Love is, however, a profound response to a whole cultural crisis. The ‘progress’ of the modern industrialized world had led to the carnage of the First World War.

What, then, did it mean to call ourselves ‘human’? On what grounds could we place ourselves above and beyond the animal world? What are the definitive forms of our relationships – love, marriage, family, friendship – really worth? And how might they be otherwise? Without directly referring to the war, Women in Love explores these questions with restless energy. As a sequel to The Rainbow, the novel develops experimenta.