کتاب Women in Love Original Perhaps no other of the worlds 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 womenboth sensual and intellectualas 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 poetryand is compulsively readable  It opens with sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen characters who also appeared in The Rainbow 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 inspectorand an erotic interweaving of souls and bodies begins One couple will find love the other death in Lawrences lush powerfully crafted fifth novel one of his masterpieces and the work that may best convey his beliefs about sex love and humankinds ongoing struggle between the forces of destruction and life