The First Women in Love
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Oneworld Classics
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9781847490056
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Classics; Fiction / Classics
First sentence: Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the large window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.
Description: Women in Love (1920) continues the story of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, who first appeared in Lawrence's novel The Rainbow (1915). The story contrasts the passionate love affairs of Ursula and Rupert Birkin, a character often seen as a self-portrait of Lawrence, with that of Gudrun and Gerald Crich, an icily handsome mining industrialist. Birkin, an introspective misanthrope, struggles to reconcile his metaphysical drive for self-fulfillment with Ursula's practical view of sentimental passion. As they fight their way through to a mutually satisfying relationship--and eventual marriage--Gudrun and Crich's sadomasochistic love affair careens toward a disastrous conclusion. -- BarnesandNoble.com.