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The Rainbow (Paperback)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by Anne Fernihough, James Wood, Mark Kinkead-Weekes
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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
This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge biography of D. H.
Lawrence covers the years 1912-22, the period in which he forged
his reputation as one of the greatest and most controversial
writers of the twentieth century. The story opens as the
twenty-six-year-old Lawrence travels to Germany with Frieda
Weekley, the wife of a university professor and mother of three
small children. In his baggage on that prosaic cross-channel ferry
was a draft of Sons and Lovers, the first of a group of novels with
which Lawrence was to revolutionize English fiction over the next
decade. This meticulously researched volume opens a new perspective
on the central period of Lawrence's life and literary career.
Drawing on memoirs, oral recollections, and unpublished manuscript
material, it deals squarely with the vexing issue of Lawrence and
Frieda's personal relations--issues that have more often been
gossiped about than scrupulously examined. Above all it reveals the
triumph of Lawrence's art during a decade of extraordinary trials
in which, against all reasonable odds, the coal-miner's son
established himself as the most innovative and notorious novelist
of his generation.
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The Rainbow (Paperback)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by Mark Kinkead-Weekes
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R1,371
Discovery Miles 13 710
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D. H. Lawrence expected The Rainbow to have 'a bit of a fight'
before it was accepted, but 'The fight will have to be made, that
is all'. It was suppressed, just over a month after publication, in
November 1915. The American publisher would make thirteen further
cuts and 'dribble out' the book quietly. In 1930 the British
government would again consider suppressing a new printing of The
Rainbow. Professor Mark Kinkead-Weekes gives the composition
history and collates the surviving states of the text to assess the
damage done to Lawrence's novel, and to provide a text as close to
that which the author wrote as is now possible. The final
manuscript, revisions in the typescript and the first edition are
recorded in full in the textual apparatus so the reader can follow
the novel's development and evaluate what outside interference may
have done to it. Also included are explanatory notes to historical
references and allusions, and an interior chronology of the book
itself.
D. H. Lawrence expected The Rainbow to have 'a bit of a fight'
before it was accepted, but 'The fight will have to be made, that
is all'. It was suppressed, just over a month after publication, in
November 1915. The American publisher would make thirteen further
cuts and 'dribble out' the book quietly. In 1930 the British
government would again consider suppressing a new printing of The
Rainbow. Professor Mark Kinkead-Weekes gives the composition
history and collates the surviving states of the text to assess the
damage done to Lawrence's novel, and to provide a text as close to
that which the author wrote as is now possible. The final
manuscript, revisions in the typescript and the first edition are
recorded in full in the textual apparatus so the reader can follow
the novel's development and evaluate what outside interference may
have done to it. Also included are Explanatory notes to historical
references and allusions, and an interior chronology of the book
itself.
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