Lawrence regarded this novel as his best book and F.R. Leavis considered it Lawrence’s suprerne rnasterpiece.he novel tells of the relationships of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, who live in a Midland colliery town in the years before the First World War. Lh’sula falls in love with Birkin (a thinly disguised portrait of I.awrence himself) and Gudrun has an intense but tragic affair with Gerald, the son of a local colliery owner.

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 industrialised 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 experimental techniques which made Lawrence one of the most important writers of the Modernist movement.

Sisters

Shortlands

Classroom

Diver

In the Train

CrOne de Menthe

Fetish

Breadalby

Coaldust

Sketchbook

An Island

Carpeting

Mino

Water-party

Sunday Evening

Man to Man

The Industrial Magnate

Rabbit

Moony

Gladiatorial

Threshold

Woman to Woman

Excurse

Death and Love

Marriage or Not

A Chair

Flitting

Gudrun in the Pompadour

Continental

Snowed Up

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