Women in Love

Name: Women in Love
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)
Author: D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9781538483312

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Narrator: Maureen O'Brien

Unabridged: 18 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 12/05/2017

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Romance

Synopsis

“Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions,” wrote D. H. Lawrence in Women in Love, his masterpiece heralding the erotic consciousness of the twentieth century. Lawrence explores love, sex, passion, and marriage through the eyes of two sisters, Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen. Intelligent, incisive, and observant, the two very different sisters pursue thrilling, torrid affairs with their lovers, Rupert and Gerald, while searching for more mature emotional relationships. Against a haunting World War I backdrop of coal mines, factories, and a beleaguered working class, Gudrun and Ursula’s temperamental differences spark an ongoing debate regarding their society, their inner lives, and the mysteries between men and women. Lawrence considered this to be his best novel.

About D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930), novelist, short-story writer, poet, critic, playwright, and essayist, was one of the most important and controversial figures of twentieth-century English literature. His works confront the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization and are notable for their passionate intensity and for a sensuality that centers on the erotic. Though his opinions earned him enemies, persecution, and censorship during his lifetime, he is now recognized as an artistic visionary.

About Maureen O'Brien

Maureen O’Brien is an English actress and author best known for her role as Vicki in the BBC television series Doctor Who. Since then, she has reprised the role in Big Finish Productions’ Doctor Who audio plays. Also an accomplished author, she has written numerous detective novels, including Close-Up on Death, Mask of Betrayal, and Dead Innocent.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on September 04, 2022

Novels by D.H. Lawrence possess the absolutely unique psychological climate and Women in Love is definitely one of his groundbreaking masterpieces. I detest what I am, outwardly. I loathe myself as a human being. Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. Humanity is......more

Goodreads review by Violet on October 11, 2015

Probably it’s always going to be a mistake to reread a book you loved in your youth. I haven’t read Lawrence for a long time. I believed I had his triumphs and failures pretty clear in my mind. Sons and Lovers, the early stories, The Rainbow and Women in Love all masterpieces; everything that follow......more

Goodreads review by Georgia on July 20, 2024

Someone let the wicked genie out of the lamp tonight. He's writing this, not me. I promised myself I'd review only books I like. But he has other ideas . . . and he's tied my hands behind my back and is typing as I watch. WOMEN IN LOVE by D. H. Lawrence Hated the women. Felt sorry for the men who shoul......more

Goodreads review by Edward on May 23, 2008

Ever noticed how many people hate DH Lawrence? Often for opposite reasons by the way--there are those who condemn his misognyny, while others allege him to be too doting of the fair sex. Which is it? Sometimes he's damned for being too obscene, but elsewhere dismissed as overly fussy about flowers a......more

Goodreads review by MJ on October 17, 2020

Listen, I am redrafting a 500-page novel I wrote between the ages of 19-21. I have a comp sci degree to complete. I have 20+ Xmas books to read, I have 90+ movies to watch, I have the Guided by Voices canon to penetrate. There is no time for a witty capsule opinion of Women in Love, m’right? Believe......more

Quotes

“What beauties the book contains! There are many pages in it so saturated with warm and lovely intimacies that one reads absorbed.” Guardian (London)

“His masterpiece…An astonishing work that moves on several levels…Lawrence compels us to admit that we live less finely than we should, whatever we are.” New York Review of Books

“Maureen O’Brien splendidly creates the tone and tension of each characte…O’Brien’s voice has an entrancing lilt which complements each phrase. Her sensitive, fluid performance…transports the listener.” AudioFile

“Fresher and more immediate [than previous editions].” Library Journal