She stood filled with the full moon, offering herself. And her breast opened to it, she was cleaved like a transparent jewel to its light.
"She turned, and saw a great white moon looking at her over the hill. Ursula falls in love with Anton Skrebensky, a British soldier of Polish ancestry, but he is conscripted to go to Africa. A little over half of the novel covers the first 2 generations, while the remainder focuses on Ursula and her passions. Yet, as time goes by, England becomes more industrialized and urbanized, and Ursula seeks an education to become a teacher. Tom (a farmer) and Lydia as well as Anna and Will (a wood craftsman) are happy enough to live in Nottinghamshire in the east Midlands of England. Tom married a Polish refugee/widow named Lydia who had a 10-year-old daughter Anna. It spans about 65 years from the 1840s to 1905. There could be only acquiescence and submission, and tremulous wonder of consummation." The focus is on three main characters: Tom Brangwen, Anna Brangwen (his Polish adopted daughter who married Tom's nephew, her first cousin by law, not blood) and Anna's daughter Ursula Brangwen.
He did not understand, he had yielded, given way. Only his heart was weeping happily, after the pain. And there was a silence almost of the unborn. They lay still and warm and weak, like the new-born, together. When they came to themselves, the night was very dark. He felt his veins would burst with anguish of thankfulness, his heart was mad with gratefulness, he could pour himself out upon her for ever. And her mouth, soft and moist, received him. If she would kiss him! He bent his mouth down. The flames swept him, he held her in sinews of fire. She clung to him, she cleaved to his body. His limbs, his body, took fire and beat up in flames. And at last she began to draw near to him, she nestled to him. His blood seemed very strong, enveloping her. Still he held her close, with trembling arms. He knew his blood would heal and restore her. He loved her till he felt his heart and all his veins would burst and flood her with his hot, healing blood. Frankly, this is one of the only literary novels that animated my appetite for affections, with passages such as: "His body trembled as he held her. While it is relatively mild by today's standards over a century out, it handled sensuality in a way that is true to life as a natural and spiritual force in humans, the passion to consummate the desire for intimacy and the love of another. No doubt, this book treated sexual desire as candidly as most books theretofore published. It was not available for purchase in Britain for the next 11 years. Lawrence novel, published in 1915, was almost immediately banned as obscene and the first printing of over 1,000 copies were seized and burned.
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