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Rainbow, the - D.H. Lawrence

Description: ISBN 0141441380 / Author: D.H. Lawrence / Genre: Classic Literature / Spanning three generations of the Brangwen family, Lawrence examins ... more

Rainbow, the - D.H. Lawrence ... individual relationships, and explores uses these to explore metaphysical ideas.

Newest Review: ... situations he knows. He was a Nottinghamshire miner's son, and this is a roughly disguised portrayal of the land in which ... more

... he grew up. So the scene is set, and we meet 'Tom Brangwen', the first of our characters, and the man whose relationships are explored in the first third of the book. We are looking at a story spanning three generations here, and each generation's relationships with their wives, lovers, children, the land around them, and with society. I said it was a vast book. Oh, and it could have been more vast, for 'Women in Love' is effectively a sequel to 'The Rainbow'. They were originally w...more

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Rainbow, the - D.H. Lawrence: Red to Violet (1489 words)
by - written on 11/08/01 (Very useful, 495 readings)
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When you mention DH Lawrence, 'Lady Chatterly's Lover' and all that floral imagery tend to spring to mind. It's a shame, really, because 'The Rainbow' is, I think, a much better book. It was banned too, within six weeks of its publication in 1915, thus neatly saving reviewers from having to worry about how to review such a complex, and complicated book without writing a sixteen page essay, which is what I'm fretting about now. It was 'filthy' apparently. But it isn't, at all, not in the slightest - the most explicit word I could see being 'womb'. It is sexual though, but then that's Lawrence for you, and ... Read the complete review

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