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From Library Journal The published editions of Women in Love , probably Lawrence'sgreatest novel, have always been remarkably corrupt due to alengthy, complex process of revision and tran*ion, athreatened libel suit, and numerous unauthorized bowdlerizations.The editors of this new Cambridge Edition have labored scrupulouslyto produce an authoritative text. What emerges, if not dramaticallydifferent, is fresher and more immediate. The introduction providesa valuable history of the novel's composition, revision,publication, and reception, and though the elaborate textualapparatus is strictly for advanced students of bibliography, thenotes are splendid. Lawrence's 1919 Foreword and two earlydiscarded chapters are also included. The recovery of a modernclassic. Keith Cushman, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro Download De*ion Privately printed in 1920 and published commercially in 1921,Women in Love is the novel Lawrence himself considered hismasterpiece. Set in the English Midla
