Women in Love

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Spencer Gore, Edvard Munch and Philip de László. Two sisters in a Midlands mining town take up with two men — a school inspector and a colliery owner — and the four of them argue their way across England and into the Alps about whether love is a bond or a cage. Lawrence's publisher dropped the book, it was called degenerate in print, and he could not place it for four years. It is the novel where he stopped writing stories and started writing forces. Fifty-nine plates by painters including Edvard Munch and William Orpen follow the novel's argument through mining landscapes, war-torn ground, and figures caught between love and force.