With its frank portrayal of human passion and sexual desire, D.H.
Lawrence's The Rainbow was banned as 'obscene' in Britain shortly
after first publication. This Penguin Classics edition is edited
with an introduction by James Wood. Set in the rural Midlands, The
Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen
family over a period of more than 60 years, setting them against
the emergence of modern England. When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish
widow, Lydia Lensky, and adopts her daughter Anna as his own, he is
unprepared for the conflict and passion that erupts between them.
All are seeking individual fulfilment, but it is Ursula, Anne's
spirited daughter, who in her search for self-knowedge, becomes the
focus of Lawrence's examination of relationships and the conflicts
they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the
spiritual. Suffused with Biblical imagery, The Rainbow addresses
searching human issues in a setting of precise and vivid detail. In
his introduction James Wood discusses Lawrence's writing style and
the tensions and themes of The Rainbow. This Penguin edition
reproduces the Cambridge text, which provides a text as close as
possible to Lawrence's original. It also includes suggested further
reading, a fragment of 'The Sisters II' from his first draft, and
chronologies of Lawrence's life and of The Rainbow's Brangwen
family. D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist, storywriter,
critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in
20th-century English literature. Lawrence published Sons and Lovers
in 1913, but The Rainbow, completed in 1915, was declared obscene
and banned two months after first publication; and for three years
he could not find a publisher for Women in Love, which he completed
in 1917. His last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was published in
1928, but banned in England and America. If you enjoyed The
Rainbow, you might like Lawrence's Women in Love, also available in
Penguin Classics. 'A brave and important book, passionate and
wildly ambitious' Independent on Sunday
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