Women in Love (Classic, 20th-Century, Audio)

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Women in Love (Classic, 20th-Century, Audio)
by D. H. Lawrence
from Penguin Audio

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• Audiobook

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Intensely emotional but not for everybody
  Scottish novelist Catherine Carswell stated that Women In Love is, "easy to read, but hard to understand." Certainly it is difficult to understand Lawrence, but the Amazon review by Robert Moore of another of his books (The Rainbow) does a good job of describing the essence of Lawrence's literary style. Moore states that there are four ways in which The Rainbow and Women in Love, which is really a sequel, are something new in literature. The first is the general absence of plot. In Lawrence people meet and... more info

• classic study of relationships
  D.H. Lawrence is not for the faint hearted, or anyone with a short attention span. Women in Love would perhaps be better title Women and Men in Love, as Gerald and Birkin play equally important roles as Gudren and Ursula.
  Those looking for mere titillation will be sorely disappointed, however, as the sexual charged moments are primarily portrayed through internal thoughts and emotions - indeed, by today's standards this would be a PG-13 at the most, although the inferences are certainly more adult than... more info

• Still shocking as a work of literature
  Well-formatted for the Kindle, with an easy-to-navigate table of contents. The novel itself is striking -- "right between the eyes." Passion has rarely felt so naked, and yet so much of the passion in _Women in Love_ is the passion of intellectual debate. The characters are desperate to know, *finally*, who they are, and flummoxed by their need for such explanation.

• Tough at first, But worth the work
  First off, I LOVED the Rainbow, the prequel to this book. I was very excited to get into this book and see how the characters developed further. In the beginning I felt the same interest as I did with the Rainbow, but as many others have stated, somewhere in the middle the reading got a litte tedious. Birkin was such a preachy kind of character, constantly spouting off stuff without ever convincingly proving he believed it himself! Luckily, Ursula seemed to tone that down in him. I did have a point where I... more info

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