6/23/2023 0 Comments The rainbow by dh lawrence![]() ![]() This Penguin edition reproduces the Cambridge text, which provides a text as close as possible to Lawrence's original. In his introduction James Wood discusses Lawrence's writing style and the tensions and themes of The Rainbow. Suffused with Biblical imagery, The Rainbow addresses searching human issues in a setting of precise and vivid detail. All are seeking individual fulfilment, but it is Ursula, Anne's spirited daughter, who in her search for self-knowedge, becomes the focus of Lawrence's examination of relationships and the conflicts they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the spiritual. When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish widow, Lydia Lensky, and adopts her daughter Anna as his own, he is unprepared for the conflict and passion that erupts between them. Set in the rural Midlands, The Rainbow 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. Lawrence's The Rainbow was banned as 'obscene' in Britain shortly after first publication. With its frank portrayal of human passion and sexual desire, D.H. ![]()
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