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WOMEN IN LOVE

By
D. H. LAWRENCE



LONDON
Martin Secker
1921


Book Specification

Format Cloth bound hard cover
Language English
Pagination [1-4] 5 [6] 7-508 (plus 4-page publisher's advertisements)
Book Size Octavo
Approx. Book Dimensions (Width, Height, Depth) in mm 135 x 197 x 31
Approx weight (grammes) 459g
(I)SBN n/a
Date This Edition Published 1921 (First trade Edition, UK)
Date Of Original Publication 1921 (novel was issued privately in a 1920 limited edition, New York)


Condition  / Description
(please see foot of listing for rating key)

GOOD minus : no dust jacket, hard covers, publisher's original brown cloth, blind stamped panels, gilt stamped spine, cloth is rubbed, spine ends bumped, light  wear to corners, lower edge untrimmed, page ends tanned, front hinge a little tender as endpaper is partially split at gutter, holding well, binding firm, leaves are  toned esp. to margins, some foxing throughout, no inscriptions, rear free endpaper has small area of top corner torn away


Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, Women in Love is both a lucid account of English society before the First World War, and a brilliant  evocation of the inexorable power of human desire. 

Women in Love continues where The Rainbow 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, Women is Love is one  of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative and unsettling works.

About the Author : D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist, storywriter, critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English  literature. Lawrence published Sons and Lovers in 1913, but The Rainbow, completed in 1915, was declared obscene and banned two months after first publication; and  for three years he could not find a publisher for Women in Love, which he completed in 1917. His last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was published in  1928, but banned in England and America.

This is the First Edition, published by Martin Secker, London, 1921, the first trade edition. It was preceded by the scarce privately-printed New York limited  edition of 1920.



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