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The Rainbow

by Lawrence, D. H

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ISBN 10
0140119809
ISBN 13
9780140119800
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1989 Slight page toning with age. Otherwise in as new condition. An unread copy. Jacket art is for the movie tie-in.. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket as Issued.

Synopsis

D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow follows three generations of the Brangwen family, with a particular focus on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters. Tom Brangwen, who is… let’s say “not the brightest,” succeeds to his father’s farm and falls in love with Lydia Lensky, a Polish widow; Anna, Lydia’s daughter (and Tom’s stepdaughter), marries Will, a distant relative of Tom’s; Anna and Will’s oldest daughter, Ursula, is a modern working woman. For Tom Brangwen’s generation sex happens, but between the lines. For Anna and Will, bodies are alluded to and desires described. By the time Ursula Brangwen is a young woman, sex is frequent and directly addressed. This depiction of sexual desire as a natural force — perhaps spiritual, even! — caused quite a stir upon The Rainbow’s publication. The novel was almost instantly removed from the shelves of bookstores across the UKcountry and was then prosecuted in an obscenity trial in a British Magistrates’ court in November 1915, just two months after its release. As a result, roughly half of the copies of the novel’s original print run of were seized and burnt. The Rainbow was unavailable in the UK for 11 years following. Lawrence initially conceived The Rainbow and what became its sequel, Women in Love, as a single novel titled The Sisters. However, after much revision, that manuscript became two of the author’s greatest novels. The Rainbow is ranked 48th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century; Women in Love is ranked 49th.

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Bookseller
Dan A.Domike US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
005818
Title
The Rainbow
Author
Lawrence, D. H
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
No Jacket as Issued
ISBN 10
0140119809
ISBN 13
9780140119800
Publisher
Viking Penguin
Place of Publication
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published
1989
Keywords
BRITISH IRISH FICTION FICTIONAL WORKS

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Movie tie-in
an edition of a book which is produced in conjunction with a movie which is usually based on the book, often with a cover image...
Trade Paperback
Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...

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