The Rainbow (Collector's Library) - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904919650 ISBN 13: 9781904919650

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2005

Synopsis

Prosecuted in an obscenity trial in 1915 for its frank treatment of sexuality, this novel chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England Set between the 1840s and the early years of the 20th century, this novel tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, ancient occupiers of Marsh Farm, Nottinghamshire. Through courting, pregnancy, marriage, and defiance, Lawrence explores love and the conflicts it brings.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1904919650
• ISBN 13: 9781904919650
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 648