The Rainbow. [Oxford World's Classics - paperback).
by Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert)
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- Paperback
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- FINE. Book appears unread: no names, no writings, no cover wear.
- ISBN 10
- 0199553858
- ISBN 13
- 9780199553853
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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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- Booktopia (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4010319
- Title
- The Rainbow. [Oxford World's Classics - paperback).
- Author
- Lawrence, D.H. (David Herbert)
- Format/Binding
- PAPERBACK.
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE. Book appears unread: no names, no writings, no cover wear.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0199553858
- ISBN 13
- 9780199553853
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ. Press.
- Place of Publication
- Oxford/New York.
- Date Published
- (2008).
- Pages
- xxx. + 512pp. + ads.
- Keywords
- 20th Century English Literature Novels D.H. Lawrence
- Size
- Small octavo.
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