Women In Love
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Set against the turbulent backdrop of pre-war England, Women in Love is D.H. Lawrence's most ambitious and psychologically penetrating novel, charting the intertwined lives and loves of two sisters — the passionate Gudrun and the idealistic Ursula — as they navigate relationships with two profoundly different men, the brooding industrialist Gerald Crich and the intellectual Rupert Birkin. Lawrence presents a searing portrait of modern desire, where love and power are locked in perpetual combat, and where the quest for true human connection is as destructive as it is transcendent. A landmark of early 20th-century literature, Women in Love argues that industrialisation and modernity have corroded the human soul, leaving its characters stranded between their primal instincts and the sterile demands of a mechanised world. Lawrence's prose is dense, visionary, and ferociously alive — weaving symbolism, philosophy, and raw sensuality into a narrative that refuses easy resolution. Widely considered one of the greatest novels in the English language, it remains a work that challenges, provokes, and ultimately leaves the reader questioning the very nature of love itself.
Author: D.H. Lawrence
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, William Heinemann
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Set against the turbulent backdrop of pre-war England, Women in Love is D.H. Lawrence's most ambitious and psychologically penetrating novel, charting the intertwined lives and loves of two sisters — the passionate Gudrun and the idealistic Ursula — as they navigate relationships with two profoundly different men, the brooding industrialist Gerald Crich and the intellectual Rupert Birkin. Lawrence presents a searing portrait of modern desire, where love and power are locked in perpetual combat, and where the quest for true human connection is as destructive as it is transcendent. A landmark of early 20th-century literature, Women in Love argues that industrialisation and modernity have corroded the human soul, leaving its characters stranded between their primal instincts and the sterile demands of a mechanised world. Lawrence's prose is dense, visionary, and ferociously alive — weaving symbolism, philosophy, and raw sensuality into a narrative that refuses easy resolution. Widely considered one of the greatest novels in the English language, it remains a work that challenges, provokes, and ultimately leaves the reader questioning the very nature of love itself.