Women in Love
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- First published
- 1920
- Pages
- 463
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01 - Chapter 01 - Sisters
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02 - Chapter 02 - Shortlands
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03 - Chapter 03 - Class-room
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04 - Chapter 04 - Diver
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05 - Chapter 05 - In the Train
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06 - Chapter 06 - Creme de Menthe
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07 - Chapter 07 - Fetish
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08 - Chapter 08 - Breadalby Part 1
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09 - Chapter 08 - Breadalby Part 2
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10 - Chapter 09 - Coal-dust
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11 - Chapter 10 - Sketch-book
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12 - Chapter 11 - An Island
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13 - Chapter 12 - Carpeting
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14 - Chapter 13 - Mino
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15 - Chapter 14 - Water-party Part 1
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16 - Chapter 14 - Water-party Part 2
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17 - Chapter 15 - Sunday Evening
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18 - Chapter 16 - Man to Man
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19 - Chapter 17 - The Industrial Magnate Part 1
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20 - Chapter 17 - The Industrial Magnate Part 2
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21 - Chapter 18 - Rabbit
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22 - Chapter 19 - Moony Part 1
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23 - Chapter 19 - Moony Part 2
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24 - Chapter 20 - Gladiatorial
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25 - Chapter 21 - Threshold
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26 - Chapter 22 - Woman to Woman
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27 - Chapter 23 - Excurse
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28 - Chapter 24 - Death and Love Part 1
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29 - Chapter 24 - Death and Love Part 2
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30 - Chapter 25 - Marriage or Not
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31 - Chapter 26 - A Chair
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32 - Chapter 27 - Flitting
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33 - Chapter 28 - Gudrun in the Pompadour
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34 - Chapter 29 - Continental Part 1
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35 - Chapter 29 - Continental Part 2
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36 - Chapter 29 - Continental Part 3
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37 - Chapter 29 - Continental Part 4
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38 - Chapter 29 - Continental Part 5
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39 - Chapter 30 - Snowed Up Part 1
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40 - Chapter 30 - Snowed Up Part 2
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41 - Chapter 30 - Snowed Up Part 3
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42 - Chapter 31 - Exeunt
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Women in Love (1920) is a public domain work.
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About this book
Women in Love is D. H. Lawrence's great companion to The Rainbow, published in 1920, and by many judged his finest novel. It follows the Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and the two men they are drawn to, the thoughtful Rupert Birkin and the powerful industrialist Gerald Crich, through love affairs that reach for something beyond ordinary happiness and risk destruction in the search. Set against a darkening England and a journey into the Alps, the book explores the tension between love and freedom, tenderness and will, life and the pull toward death. Intense and philosophical, it is one of the central novels of English modernism.
From the opening pages
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. They were mostly silent, talking as their thoughts strayed through their minds.
“Ursula,” said Gudrun, “don’t you really want to get married?” Ursula laid her embroidery in her lap and looked up. Her face was calm and considerate.
“I don’t know,” she replied. “It depends how you mean.”
Gudrun was slightly taken aback. She watched her sister for some moments.
“Well,” she said, ironically, “it usually means one thing! But don’t you think anyhow, you’d be—” she darkened slightly—“in a better position than you are in now.”
A shadow came over Ursula’s face.
“I might,” she said. “But I’m not sure.”
Again Gudrun paused, slightly irritated. She wanted to be quite definite.
“You don’t think one needs the experience of having been married?” she asked.
“Do you think it need be an experience?” replied Ursula.
“Bound to be, in some way or other,” said Gudrun, coolly. “Possibly undesirable, but bound to be an experience of some sort.”
“Not really,” said Ursula. “More likely to be the end of experience.”
Gudrun sat very still, to attend to this.
“Of course,” she said, “there’s that to consider.” This brought the conversation to a close. Gudrun, almost angrily, took up her rubber and began to rub out part of her drawing. Ursula stitched absorbedly.
“You wouldn’t consider a good offer?” asked Gudrun.
“I think I’ve rejected several,” said Ursula.
“Really!” Gudrun flushed dark—“But anything really worth while? Have you really?”
“A thousand a year, and an awfully nice man. I liked him awfully,” said Ursula.
“Really! But weren’t you fearfully tempted?”
“In the abstract but not in the concrete,” said Ursula. “When it comes to the point, one isn’t even tempted—oh, if I were tempted, I’d marry like a shot. I’m only tempted not to.” The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement.
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Book facts
- Author
- D. H. Lawrence
- First published
- 1920
- Reading time
- About 13 hours
- Pages
- 463
- Language
- English
- Genre
- British Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Ruth Golding