Women in Love

An astonishingly avant-garde novel

Guardian

He's an intoxicator... Has there ever been anyone like him for bringing places and people so vividly to life?

I do not claim to be a literary critic, but I know dirt when I smell it, and here is dirt in heaps- festering, putrid heaps which smell to high Heaven

John Bull, 1921

It is a wonderful novel by a writer who created his own narrative voice

It is the task of our generation to learn to read him again with compassion

It's a very brave and outspoken book, which expresses things that we still have trouble expressing today

Its questions about marriage and eroticism, grief and the frightening blankness of nature, have made it one of our century's most popular novels

Financial Times

Lawrence was the first literary artist to emphasise the huge importance of sex as a means of human fulfillment

The Times

The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation

The point with Lawrence is never to be afraid of going too far, is always to push, push, push. In the pushing-process, Lawrence writes one of the most truly and thoroughly poetic novels in English

What beauties the book contains! There are many pages in it so saturated with warm and lovely intimacies that one reads absorbed

Guardian