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Women in Love Paperback – May 5, 1992

by D H Lawrence (Author), Dr Jeff Wallace (Editor), Dr Keith Carabine (Editor)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
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Introduction and Notes by Dr Jeff Wallace, University of Glamorgan.

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.

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    May 5, 1992
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    5 x 1 x 7.6 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    185326007X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1853260070
  8. Lexile measure
    920
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The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation. --E.M. Forster

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David Ellis is the author of Lawrence's Non-Fiction: Art, Thought and Genre and Wordsworth, Freud and the Spots of Time. He has been commissioned to write Volume HI of the New Cambridge biography of Lawrence.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wordsworth Editions; Reprint edition (May 5, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 185326007X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1853260070
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 920
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 1 x 7.6 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 119 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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Stephen Schwartz
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant! Intense! Revealing. A Love and Hate Story
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2018
I’m not going to make extensive comments about this towering novel. I want to mention what struck me about it though. All the inner thoughts and dialogue and psychological descriptions are so exaggerated, so intense, so beyond anything that anybody experiences (I think), that this novel is obviously Dostoevskyean in its mammoth hyper-excitement and breathless rush of words. I recently read The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed, etc. and yes Women in Love goes right on this list. And I don’t say that lightly. Lawrence is much more sensitive and wise about the nature (and disasters) of sexual love than is Dostoevsky. But Lawrence has (dare I say it?) learned from Dostoevsky the heightened, wildly energetic, style of psychological dissection of troubled minds and souls.
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Jeffrey Leeper
4.0 out of 5 stars Almost a soap opera....
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2001
OK, the title for this review may be a little harsh, but the image is hard to shake from my mind. Imagine the close-ups used in a soap opera to show you the intense anguish and inner turmoil the characters feel. Usually, there is pensive expressions which sometimes border on the ludicrous. In "Women in Love" I can't help imagining Lawrence using the same thing. There is a narrative, there is action, but a lot of the book belongs inside the characters. We see Gudrun looking out at the snow covered valley with a feeling of awe, we hear Birkin go through endless thoughts of the ineffable thing he is looking for but can't state clearly, and we watch Gerald trying to find the next big problem he can solve. Throughout all this ruminating, we, the viewer, must be watching something. Hence, we look at the soap opera close-ups of the Brangwens, Criches, and Birkin.
This is not a bad book, but not a book which moves me like others of Lawrence. This book was a continuation of "The Rainbow," but it does not give you the span of time. The novel is primarily focused on Ursula, Gudrun, Rupert, and Gerald. I miss seeing how things work through time. You still have elements from Lawrence's other novels (like dancing uninhibitedly with nature), but it seems as if he is giving us too much information on just a few people. I feel he has more effect with "The Rainbow."
I agree that you do not need to read "The Rainbow" first. Lawrence is a thorough writer, so many times I found myself rereading passages to better understand what he is trying to tell me.
The Wordsworth Classics are inexpensive, but they do not have a lot of room in the margins for notes. This is a good volume to buy for a read, but not for a study.
Although you do not need to read "The Rainbow" to read this, I would recommend reading "Women in Love" if you have read "The Rainbow." It is interesting to watch how Lawrence develops the women after giving you their history.
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1.0 out of 5 stars TYPOS
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2023
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The Wordsworth edition has typos. I'm about 100 pages in and already I've spotted well over a dozen typos. In five areas, I believe whole words are missing from the text. It's difficult to read when I'm spending most of my time cursing the editor and publisher.
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Adarsha Dutta
5.0 out of 5 stars Worthy of more than 125 INR
Reviewed in India on October 18, 2019
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Marvelous novel by Lawrence.
He thinks his best.
And so is it.
Numero uno.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A book ahead ot its time
Reviewed in Spain on January 15, 2016
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The characters of this book are so ahead of their time. They have such a modern, deep and dark way of seeing everything that surrounds them. The plot of Women in Love itself is a bit unprecise due to the long philosophocal discussions that the caracthers have with one another, but perhaps that is what makes the novel so fascinating and surprising.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I want them to have access to as many books as possible as they grow - the classics like this one
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 23, 2015
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I read this a long time ago, and bought this version for the family bookshelf I'm building up for my children. I want them to have access to as many books as possible as they grow - the classics like this one, novels they will probably have to read during high school and books that nurtured my own love of reading as a child and as I grew into a teenager.
This particular novel is probably one I'll keep until they are much older due to the nature of the story, but it's a wonderful addition to the 'shelf'.

I LOVE these Wordsworth classics - they are such a great and affordable price - this means I can acquire a huge collection of classics in quite a short time, and although I wasn't really sold on the covers at first, when they arrived they looked great.

I can recommend this series of classic books for anyone who is looking to expand their collection but wants to cut costs where possible.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very cheap
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 8, 2019
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Decent quality cannot believe it costs just over £2 with a no deal brexit around the corner. Indexing is well done see pictures.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very cheap
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 8, 2019
Decent quality cannot believe it costs just over £2 with a no deal brexit around the corner. Indexing is well done see pictures.
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Qasim
4.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2017
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good reading for my classics collection
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