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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679423052

ISBN-139780679423058

eBay Product ID (ePID)52956

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Book TitleRainbow : Introduction by Barbara Hardy

Number of Pages496 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicVisionary & Metaphysical, Literary

Publication Year1993

GenreFiction

AuthorD. H Lawrence

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight19 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN93-001860

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"[Lawrence] had that quality of genius which sucks out of ordinary experience essences strange or unknown to men." -Anaïs Nin, "[Lawrence] had that quality of genius which sucks out of ordinary experience essences strange or unknown to men." - Anaïs Nin From the Trade Paperback edition., "[Lawrence] had that quality of genius which sucks out of ordinary experience essences strange or unknown to men." - Anaïs Nin, "[Lawrence] had that quality of genius which sucks out of ordinary experience essences strange or unknown to men." -Anaïs Nin From the Trade Paperback edition., "[Lawrence] had that quality of genius which sucks out of ordinary experience essences strange or unknown to men." - Anas Nin

Dewey Decimal823.912

SynopsisA multi-generational family saga that chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family on their Nottinghamshire farm--and the riveting prequel to Women in Love --from one of the greatest and most controversial writers of the 20th century. Rooted in an agrarian past, Tom and Lydia Brangwen and their descendants find themselves navigating a rapidly changing world--a world of unprecedented individualism, alienation, and liberation. Banned after an obscenity trial in 1915 for its frankness about sexuality, THE RAINBOW was most remarkable for the pathbreaking journeys of its female characters, particularly that of Ursula Brangwen, whose destiny Lawrence explored further in his next novel, Women in Love. In its surface drama, in its capacious and expansive rhythms that so resemble the rhythms of nature itself, THE RAINBOW is one of the world's great examples of the multi-generational family saga. But the large claim that Lawrence's masterpiece has made on the attention of readers and critics stems less from this fact than from the deeper parallel history he provides for the Brangwens--a history of the growth of their souls, moving in a great arc from sensuality to self-awareness and freedom., Spanning the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, D. H. Lawrence's provocative novel traces the lives of three generations of one family on their Nottinghamshire farm. Rooted in an agrarian past, Tom and Lydia Brangwen and their descendants find themselves navigating a rapidly changing world--a world of unprecedented individualism, alienation, and liberation. Banned after an obscenity trial in 1915 for its frankness about sexuality, THE RAINBOW was most remarkable for the pathbreaking journeys of its female characters, particularly that of Ursula Brangwen, whose destiny Lawrence explored further in his next novel, Women in Love. In its surface drama, in its capacious and expansive rhythms that so resemble the rhythms of nature itself, THE RAINBOW is one of the world's great examples of the multi-generational family saga. But the large claim that Lawrence's masterpiece has made on the attention of readers and critics stems less from this fact than from the deeper parallel history he provides for the Brangwens--a history of the growth of their souls, moving in a great arc from sensuality to self-awareness and freedom.

LC Classification NumberPR6019.O9