The Rainbow (Wordsworth Classics)

Lawrence, D.H.

ISBN 10: 1853262501 / ISBN 13: 9781853262500

Published by Wordsworth Editions, 1995

About this Item

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rainbow (Wordsworth Classics)
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853262501
• ISBN 13: 9781853262500
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 1050 grams

About this title

Synopsis

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence. With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century. The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century. Within this framework Lawrence s essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters as he explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a religious symbolism in which the rainbow of the title is his unifying motif. His primary focus is on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within marriage and changing social circumstances, a process shown to grow more difficult through the generations. Young Ursula Brangwen, whose story is continued in Women in Love, is finally the central figure in Lawrence's anatomy of the confining structures of English social life and the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on the human psyche.

About the Author

Keith Cushman is the author of D. H. Lawrence at Work. The books he has edited or coedited include The Letters of D. H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell 1914 1925 and Lawrence's Memoir of Maurice Magnus as well as two collections of essays, The Challenge of D. H. Lawrence and D. H. Lawrence s Literary Inheritors. He is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. From the Trade Paperback edition.