Women in Love

Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel,Women in Loveis both a lucid account of English society before the First World War, and a brilliant evocation of the inexorable power of human desire. Women in Lovecontinues whereThe Rainbowleft off, with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships, Ursula's with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, and Gudrun's with industrialist Gerald Crich, and later with a sculptor, Loerke. Quintessentially modernist,Women in Loveis one of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative and unsettling works.