{"product_id":"women-in-love-29","title":"Women in Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWidely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, \u003ci\u003eWomen in Love\u003c\/i\u003e is both a lucid account of English society before the First World War, and a brilliant evocation of the inexorable power of human desire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen in Love\u003c\/i\u003e continues where \u003ci\u003eThe Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e left off, with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships, Ursula's with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, and Gudrun's with industrialist Gerald Crich, and later with a sculptor, Loerke. Quintessentially modernist, \u003ci\u003eWomen is Love\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative and unsettling works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his introduction Amit Chaudhuri discusses Lawrence's style and imagery. This introduction also includes a chronology of Lawrence's life and work, further reading, notes and appendices containing the original foreword to \u003ci\u003eWomen in Love\u003c\/i\u003e, a fragment of 'The Sisters', 'Prologue' and 'Wedding' chapters from an earlier draft, a map and discussion of the setting and people involved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an introduction by Amit Chaudhuri.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His genius was for instant perception and vivid, passionate expression'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His masterpiece ... Lawrence compels us to admit that we live less finely than we should'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248683602264,"sku":"9780141441542","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141441542_4a92a81c-4ecc-4eca-b0d9-8196b54c925b.jpg?v=1765632643","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/women-in-love-29","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}