This is a compelling novel in which the renowned classic author D.H. Lawrence examines two women with no men in sight to begin with. When a lurking intruder enters their sheltered world, their love is tested, proven, and shattered. Banford and March will, perhaps, always be a beloved couple of characters for a study of a manipulating style of two women. On a farm, the story begins.

Figurative symbolic psychology from the world of a deeply serious artist who was heavily into sexual psychoanalysis, theosophy, history, and archeology. He filled all of his books with penetrating characters.

Take a nice sleep. Reading Lawrence can be exhausting on the mind but improve it one hundred percent. It was a wanted experience because I first read the book back in 1968 and then saw the movie, with a great movie actress in it--the well-liked Sandy Dennis.

I'll use a quote from the book:

"And in her dream-despair all she could find that would do was a fox-skin. She knew that it wasn't right, and this was not what she should have. But it was all she could find. And so she folded the brush of the fox and laid her darling Jill's head on this and she brought round the skin of the fox and laid it on top of the body so that it seemed to make a hole ruddy fiery coverlet and she cried and cried and woke to find the tears streaming down her face.

D. H. Lawrence may be a classroom-common name. With his novels Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow(1915),Women In Love(1920)and on, even his personal journey to such a Utopia as he has given us as a legacy is noted by true Lawrence fans.

The Fox is fullfilling, warmly intriquing,
and a secret fantasy satisfied that goes along with
being a woman.

A good man is hard to find.

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