Women in Love
Synopsis
Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence, published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula Brangwen and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions associated with the author. The emotional relationships thus established are given further depth and tension by an intense psychological and physical attraction between Gerald and Rupert. The novel ranges over the whole of British society before the time of the First World War and eventually concludes in the snows of the Tyrolean Alps.Like much of Lawrence's work, Women in Love faced accusations of indecency upon its publication. However, it has since been praised as a complex examination of the changing relationships between men and women in the 20th century and the role of passion and sexuality in the quest for identity and self.
Book details
- Author:
- D. H. Lawrence
- ISBN:
- 9781927854396
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781927854396
- Publisher:
- Joe's Books Inc.
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2018-01-26
- Usage restrictions:
- Public domain
- Copyright date:
- 2008
- Copyright by:
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction