Women in Love

Perhaps no other of the world&#146;s great writers lived and wrote with the passionate intensity of D. H. Lawrence. And perhaps no other of his books so explores the mysteries between men and women&#150;both sensual and intellectual&#150;as Women in Love. Written in the years before and during World War I in a heat of great energy and criticized for its exploration of human sexuality the book is filled with symbolism and poetry&#150;and is compulsively readable. <br><br>It opens with sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen characters who also appeared in<i> The Rainbow</i> discussing marriage then walking through a haunting landscape ruined by coal mines smoking factories and sooty dwellings. Soon Gudrun will choose Gerald the icily handsome mining industrialist as her lover; Ursula will become involved with Birkin a school inspector&#150;and an erotic interweaving of souls and bodies begins. One couple will find love the other death in Lawrence&#146;s lush powerfully crafted fifth novel one of his masterpieces and the work that may best convey his beliefs about sex love and humankind&#146;s ongoing struggle between the forces of destruction and life.