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The Rainbow (Modern Library #128.1)
by LAWRENCE, D. H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Good dust jacket. [c.1963]. Hardcover. A complete and unabridged Modern Library reprint edition of D. H. Lawrence's exploration of human sensuality and sexuality, first published in 1915. Set in Nottinghamshire, England, "The Rainbow" was followed by the author's sequel, "Women in Love" in 1920. --- In Toledano spine 10 / red-orange cloth / ML hex device blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling & torchbearer / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists ML titles, but no total number. Likely published c.1963 (though 1943 date appears in book). ML #128.1. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy but with small holes to corners of the first few leaves. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.95) with chipping and small tears along edges (especially at spine ends), darkened spine but otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; (8), 467, (2, ads) pages .
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87337
- Title
- The Rainbow (Modern Library #128.1)
- Author
- LAWRENCE, D. H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1963]
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