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The Rainbow
With its frank portrayal of human passion and sexual desire DH 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 WoodSet 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 detailIn 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 familyDH 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 AmericaIf 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
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 detailIn 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 familyDH 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 AmericaIf 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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