Women in love, Lawrence, D. H
by D. H love
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Very Good. Women in Love. N.Y.: Privately Printed for Subscribers only, 1920. First Edition, #112 of 1250 numbered copies. Very tall 8vo, original blue buckram, gilt spine lettering, untrimmed. Covers nice with brief rubbing and dusting, rear hinge split, text firm and very clean. Roberts A15a. As Bready notes, "Initial publication, prior to U.S. trade edition by Thomas Seltzer later in 1920, and a London edition in 1921. Lawrence completed the manuscript in 1916, but British publishers felt his reputation (after "The Rainbow") would cause this risky novel to be quickly suppressed. Seltzer actually arranged for printing of this edition in 1920
Synopsis
D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, the sequel to The Rainbow (1915), was published in 1920. However, these novels, two of the author’s greatest, were initially conceived as a single work. Women in Love continues The Rainbow’s story of the Brangwen family, focusing namely on the lives and loves of sisters Ursula and Gudren. Urusula, a teacher, becomes romantically involved with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector with some unconventional ideas and attitudes; Gurdren, an artist, becomes involved with Gerald Crich, an industrialist and coal mine heir. Drawn together by a number of incidents, all four yearn for fulfillment, but struggle to avoid destruction in the process. Getting Women in Love published proved to be a challenge following The Rainbow’s obscenity trial, which resulted in the novel’s being unavailable in the UK for over a decade after. Unsurprisingly, Methuen & Co., publisher of The Rainbow, backed out of publishing Women in Love. But after three long years of delays and extensive revisions, Thomas Seltzer published Women in Love in New York City. Women in Love is ranked 49th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century; The Rainbow is ranked 48th.
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- Title
- Women in love, Lawrence, D. H
- Author
- D. H love
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- Used - Very Good
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- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Buckram
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