Women in Love

Women in Love explores the lives of Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and their developing love affairs with Rupert Birkin, an intellectual, and Gerald Crich, and industrialist. The despair of one sister's relationship contrasts with the happiness of the other's as the four clash in thought, passion and belief, in their search for a life that is truly complete. The novel is the sequel to The Rainbow and, although written in 1916, it remained unpublished in England until 1921.
In his Introduction Amit Chaudhuri discusses Lawrence's style and imagery. This edition also includes a chronology of Lawrence's life and work, further reading, notes and appendices containing the original forward to Women in Love, a fragment of 'The Sisters', the 'Prologue' and 'Wedding' chapters from an earlier draft, a map and discussion of the setting and people involved.

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Two of D. H. LawrenceA's most renowned novelsA-now with new packages and new introductions

Widely regarded as D. H. LawrenceA's greatest novel, Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off, with the third generation of the Brangwens. Focusing on Ursula Brangwen and her sister GudrunA's relationshipsA-the former with a school inspector and the latter with an industrialist and then a sculptorA-Women in Love is a powerful, sexually explicit depiction of the destructiveness of human relations.

James Wood is the chief literary critic of The Guardian, a senior editor at The New Republic, and a professor of literary criticism at Harvard.
Amit Chaudhuri is an award-winning novelist and critic and a contributor to such publications as The New Yorker, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and Granta.