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EAN: 9780140861044 Edition: Abridged Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0140861041 Label: Penguin Audio Manufacturer: Penguin Audio Number Of Items: 4 Number Of Pages: 4 Publication Date: December 01, 1995 Publisher: Penguin Audio Studio: Penguin Audio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The Brangwen sisters are now teachers in Beldover, a small town dominated by the great colliery that seems to express the full dehumanizing ugliness of industrialization. Here Ursula falls in love with Rupert Birkin while Gudrun has a tragic and demonic affair with Gerald Crich, son of the colliery owner. 4 cassettes. Book Description: This edition of Women in Love clears the text of literally thousands of accumulated errors allowing its readers to read and understand the novelist's work as Lawrence himself created it. The introduction gives a full history of the novel's composition, revision, publication and reception, and notes explain allusions and references. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Intensely emotional but not for everybodyScottish novelist Catherine Carswell stated that Women In Love is, "easy to read, but hard to understand." Certainly it is difficult to understand Lawrence, but the Amazon review by Robert Moore of another of his books (The Rainbow) does a good job of describing the essence of Lawrence's literary style. Moore states that there are four ways in which The Rainbow and Women in Love, which is really a sequel, are something new in literature. The first is the general absence of plot. In Lawrence people ... Read More Rating:  - classic study of relationshipsD.H. Lawrence is not for the faint hearted, or anyone with a short attention span. Women in Love would perhaps be better title Women and Men in Love, as Gerald and Birkin play equally important roles as Gudren and Ursula. Those looking for mere titillation will be sorely disappointed, however, as the sexual charged moments are primarily portrayed through internal thoughts and emotions - indeed, by today's standards this would be a PG-13 at the most, although the inferences are certainly ... Read More Rating: - Still shocking as a work of literatureWell-formatted for the Kindle, with an easy-to-navigate table of contents. The novel itself is striking -- "right between the eyes." Passion has rarely felt so naked, and yet so much of the passion in _Women in Love_ is the passion of intellectual debate. The characters are desperate to know, *finally*, who they are, and flummoxed by their need for such explanation. Rating: - Tough at first, But worth the workFirst off, I LOVED the Rainbow, the prequel to this book. I was very excited to get into this book and see how the characters developed further. In the beginning I felt the same interest as I did with the Rainbow, but as many others have stated, somewhere in the middle the reading got a litte tedious. Birkin was such a preachy kind of character, constantly spouting off stuff without ever convincingly proving he believed it himself! Luckily, Ursula seemed to tone that down in him. I did have a point where ... Read More Rating: - The charming, hilarious, and throught provoking story of two sisters. This book is beautifully written. You could randomly pick almost any paragraph and read it and close the book and think to your self "wow, that was beautiful." It tells the story of sisters Gudrun and Brangwen, two young women in England who stand apart from the crowd and struggle with their quirky independence in a classist society. Of course it isn't a gripper or a page turner. It took me over a year to finish reading this book. That's not to say it's not good-- on the contrary I say ... Read More 
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