Women in Love

Love is not enough. Marriage is not the answer. And the only truth worth finding is the one you discover in the fire.

D.H. Lawrence's most ambitious novel is a philosophical romance, a psychological thriller, and a blazing manifesto about how to live—and love—in a world gone cold.

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, sisters and schoolteachers in a Midland mining town, seek something more than the respectable marriages their society offers them. Ursula falls in love with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector who despises convention and believes that love must be balanced by something else—call it freedom, call it solitude, call it the "star-equilibrium" between two separate beings. Gudrun falls into a destructive affair with Gerald Crich, the handsome, powerful heir to a mining fortune, whose will to control consumes everything it touches. As the four lovers circle each other through parties, arguments, Alpine holidays, and a sexual awakening that shocked 1920s readers, Lawrence asks: Can men and women ever truly meet? Or are we doomed to destroy what we desire?

This is Lawrence at his most visionary and dangerous: a novel about passion, power, and the death of the old world. Women in Love was banned, burned, and called obscene—and it remains one of the most electrifying novels of the twentieth century.

• Frequently ranked among the greatest novels of the 20th century

• A sequel to The Rainbow, but darker, stranger, and more experimental

• Explores themes of bisexuality, industrial destruction, and the search for authentic connection

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A beautifully crafted edition for your shelf, your device, or your ears—or the perfect gift for anyone who knows that love, by itself, is never enough.

About the Author

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist, one of the most controversial and influential writers of the twentieth century. Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the son of a coal miner and a former schoolteacher, Lawrence drew heavily on his industrial Midlands upbringing. Women in Love was completed in 1916 but was not published in full until 1920, and then only in a limited edition. Its American publication in 1921 was suppressed for obscenity, and it was not legally available in the United Kingdom until 1960, following the famous Lady Chatterley's Lover trial. Lawrence spent much of his adult life traveling—Italy, Australia, Mexico, New Mexico—seeking a climate that would ease his tuberculosis. He died in France at the age of 44. His other major works include Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928).