Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"What astonished me reading it this time round is the iconoclastic modernity of the novel? the sense of daring experiment . . . When this is combined with sexual overtness and a revolutionary call for the individual to achieve "Me-ness" in opposition to the nation, industry and war, we have a book that, appearing as it did in 1915, seemed genuinely disturbing." —Guardian
Synopsis
A novel which 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 twentieth century The Rainbow 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.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK
About the Author
D.H. Lawrence (18851930) was as a pioneer of English modernism and is best known for his novels Lady Chatterley's Lover, Sons and Lovers, and Women in Love. Rachel Cusk is the author of Arlington Park, for which she was shortlisted for the Orange Prize; The Country Life, for which she won the Somerset Maugham Award; The Last Supper; and Saving Agnes, for which she won the Whitbread First Novel Award.