Women in Love
by D.H. Lawrence · 1920
Literary Fiction · ranked #35 in category
Two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, form intense relationships with Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich respectively in a Midlands mining community. Lawrence's most ambitious and controversial novel probes the nature of love, power and modern alienation — and asks whether genuine human connection is possible in an industrialised, dying world.
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