The Rainbow (Signet Classics) Mass market paperback - 2009
by Lawrence, D. H
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Lush with imagery, this is the story of three generations ofBrangwen women living during the decline of English rural life.Banned upon publication, it explores the most taboo subjects of itstime: marriage, physical love, and one family's sexual mores.
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- Title The Rainbow (Signet Classics)
- Author Lawrence, D. H
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 519
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Signet, New York
- Date 2009
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0451530306I5N00
- ISBN 9780451530301 / 0451530306
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 6.88 x 4.2 x 1.45 in (17.48 x 10.67 x 3.68 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Midlands (England)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011534351
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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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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First Edition Identification
Methuen & Co. first published The Rainbow in London in 1915. Signed first editions have sold for upwards of $8,000.