The Rainbow
by Lawrence, D. H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
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About This Item
NY: B. W. Huebsch. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1916. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth, black lettering on spine and cover. The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D. H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, particularly focusing on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within the confining strictures of English social life. Lawrence's frank treatment of sexual desire and the part it plays within relationships caused The Rainbow to be prosecuted in an obscenity trial at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court on November 13, 1915, as a result of which 1,011 copies were seized and burnt. After this ban it was unavailable in Britain for 11 years, although editions were available in the United States, of which this is the first. The publisher, Benjamin Huebsch had his own publishing house, B.W Huebsch, and was a daring publisher. He was the first publisher in the United States of James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square, and clean, with only the slightest age-toning. NEAR FINE. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 467 pp .
Synopsis
D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow follows three generations of the Brangwen family, with a particular focus on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters. Tom Brangwen, who is… let’s say “not the brightest,” succeeds to his father’s farm and falls in love with Lydia Lensky, a Polish widow; Anna, Lydia’s daughter (and Tom’s stepdaughter), marries Will, a distant relative of Tom’s; Anna and Will’s oldest daughter, Ursula, is a modern working woman. For Tom Brangwen’s generation sex happens, but between the lines. For Anna and Will, bodies are alluded to and desires described. By the time Ursula Brangwen is a young woman, sex is frequent and directly addressed. This depiction of sexual desire as a natural force — perhaps spiritual, even! — caused quite a stir upon The Rainbow’s publication. The novel was almost instantly removed from the shelves of bookstores across the UKcountry and was then prosecuted in an obscenity trial in a British Magistrates’ court in November 1915, just two months after its release. As a result, roughly half of the copies of the novel’s original print run of were seized and burnt. The Rainbow was unavailable in the UK for 11 years following. Lawrence initially conceived The Rainbow and what became its sequel, Women in Love, as a single novel titled The Sisters. However, after much revision, that manuscript became two of the author’s greatest novels. The Rainbow is ranked 48th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century; Women in Love is ranked 49th.
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26039
- Title
- The Rainbow
- Author
- Lawrence, D. H
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- B. W. Huebsch
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1916
- Keywords
- Literature;, Fiction;, D. H. Lawrence;
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