The Rainbow (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199553858 ISBN 13: 9780199553853

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2008

Synopsis

To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinity

This is the insight that flashes upon Ursula as she struggles to assert her individuality and to stand separate from her family and her surroundings on the brink of womanhood and the modern world.

In The Rainbow (1915) Lawrence challenged the customary limitations of language and convention to carry into the structure of his prose the fascination with boundaries and space that characterize the entire novel. Condemned and suppressed on its first publication for its open treatment of sexuality and its `unpatriotic' spirit, the novel 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. The central figure of ursula 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 her introduction to this edition Kate Flint illuminates Lawrence's aims and achievements against the background of the burgeoning century.
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Review:

"The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." -- E.M. Forster

The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation. E. M. Forster
He was a language, a setting, a world entirely of his own. He was, like all true poetry, against tepid living and tepid loves [giving] full expression to the gestures of passion. Anais Nin"

-The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation.---E. M. Forster
-He was a language, a setting, a world entirely of his own....He was, like all true poetry, against tepid living and tepid loves...[giving] full expression to the gestures of passion.---Anais Nin

"The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation."--E. M. Forster

"He was a language, a setting, a world entirely of his own....He was, like all true poetry, against tepid living and tepid loves...[giving] full expression to the gestures of passion."--Anais Nin

Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199553858
• ISBN 13: 9780199553853
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Flint Kate