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One of the greatest of twentieth-centurynovelists and poets, D. H. Lawrence wrote and lived with a passionate -- even violent -- intensity that shocked his contemporaries. When "Women In Love" was finally published in England in 1921, one newspaper headline blared: "Loathsome Study of Sex Depravity Leading Youth to Unspeakable Disaster." "Women In Love" was written at the height of Lawrence's powers; and indeed, its blend of lyricism, psychological penetration, and an eroticism that is never very far from violence, it can still shock and discomfit. In this story of two very unconventional sisters, Ursula and Gundrun Brangwen, and the men they love, Lawrence argued for a new conjunction between man and woman as "two pure beings, each constituting the freedom of the other." "Women In Love" is also distinguished by Lawrence's genius for subtle but often devastating satire, of whom the legendary Bloomsbury hostess, Lady Ottoline Morrell, is the chief and unforgettable victim. This Collector's Edition of Lawrence's masterpiece is illustrated with reproductions of his own evocative paintings from a deluxe volume from the New York Public Library's Rare Book Collection, which, when it was published in 1929, was promptly suppressed by the authorities. It also features original portraits and handwritten manuscripts, including several brilliant letters in Lawrence's own hand.

"His masterpiece...'Women in Love', is an astonishing work that moves on several levels...Lawrence compels us to admit that we live less finely than we should, whatever we are."

Noel Annan, New York Review of Books

"I do not claim to be a literary critic, but I know dirt when I smell it and here it is in heaps--festering putrid heaps which smell to high heaven."

Charles Pilley, John Bull, 09/17/1921

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