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"Lawrence is the most Dostoevskian of English novelists, in whose best work conflicting ideological positions are brought into play and set up against each other in dialogue that is never simply or finally resolved."
-David Lodge
-David Lodge
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The novel (1915) 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. The central figure of ursula becomes the focus of Lawrence's examination of relationships and the conflicts they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the spiritual. Suffused with biblical imagery, The Rainbow addresses searching human issues in a setting of precise and vivid detail.
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The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. Read the first page
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The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. Read the first page
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Lawrence is not fashionable at present, perhaps because he is just too good, and too gifted. Hardly any other English writer, perhaps only Thomas Hardy, comes near him in his ability to show the reality of people's whole lives, to present their emotions, and to depict the experience of living and working in 20th-century Britain. This is a unique and marvellous book, but we should also read his 'Sons and lovers' and 'Women in love'.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Lawrence's fame (or notoriety) rests on his sexual frankness, but what a lot of readers overlook is how well he wrote about parent-child relationships and family dynamics. The beginning of this novel is absolutely brilliant: Tom Brangwen and the Polish widow marry in haste, then find that they still haven't worked out their relationship. Her young daughter is an uneasy third party, and the child's sensitivity to the unease in their household is beautifully described, as well as her stepfather's gentle efforts to befriend her. As Lawrence continues the family history, his usual obsessions surface. But in general, it's a good story: sex is an organic part of his characters' lives rather than the mainspring of the whole plot (as in some of his other novels). And the characters come across as multi-dimensional human beings rather than talking heads (or other organs) for Lawrence's comments on life. A good novel for people who "don't like D.H. Lawrence."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The Rainbow is a hugely rewarding novel, which despite its relative brevity has the air of the epic about it. I had previously read Lady Chatterley's Lover and I've since read Women in Love, but while I enjoyed both neither had the impact of The Rainbow. That this book was censured and unavailable to buy legally in Britain for over a decade is testimony that many aspects of British life in the earlier decades of the last century are not worth mourning. The Brangwens are a family to be savoured, and Lawrence expertly evokes a long lost semi-mythical past without resorting to sentiment. This is a magnificent novel, and in over thirty years of devouring books of many kinds, this is one that has few peers.
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The Best Lawrence novel?
The Rainbow is an intergenerational saga set in late Victorian England. It deals with the inner emotional lives of a Nottinghamshire farming family-the Brangwens-who have lived on... Read more
Published 1 month ago by FlyingAspidistra
A Masterpiece
This is, like `Women in Love' and `Sons and Lovers', a masterpiece.
It was originally intended to be all one story with `Women in Love', but by the time Lawrence got to... Read more
It was originally intended to be all one story with `Women in Love', but by the time Lawrence got to... Read more
Published 15 months ago by B. J. Holland
The Rainbow (Collectors Library)
The Rainbow was my favourite novel whilst studying for A level English Lit, and this hard back copy is superb, beautifully finished and covered, an ideal gift.
Published 24 months ago by D.A.C
Most successful Lawrence
More passionate that Women in Love, much deeper than Lady Chatterley, I think this is Lawrence's most successful novel. Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2008 by Roman Clodia
Quivering to life beyond the triumph of horrible, amorphous angles
'There was a look in the eyes of the Brangwens as if they were expecting something unknown, about which they were eager' - a prescience. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2007 by Mr. Simon J. Kyte
Restrained Undertones
This read more like Hardy than Lawrence; I felt that the Author wanted to express and say a lot more than he did. Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2001
No complaints about storyline - but book is full of typos!
This classic DH Lawrence story is full of his usual passion and beautiful descriptive passages about the surroundings and the characters, however this particular version - although... Read more
Published on 17 Aug 2000
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