Books with title The Glass Rainbow

Set against the backdrop of England’s industrial revolution, D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow examines shifting social roles in pre-First World War England. Three generations of Brangwen women, Anna, Ursula, and Gudrun, each deal with their own challenges: forbidden sexual desire, unfulfilling marriages and the impossibility of physical love. Despite their station in life, the Brangwen women are able to emerge beyond the conventions of their time and place, challenging English society and emerging with strong convictions of both their selves and their desires.The Rainbow was banned upon publication in 1915, and all copies were subsequently seized and burnt. Upon republication the novel achieved commercial success, shocking readers with its frank discussion of sexuality and women’s physical desire. The Rainbow is the first of two Brangwen family novels, whose story is concluded in Women in Love. The Rainbow has been adapted for film and television.HarperPerennialClassics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

James Lee Burke’s eagerly awaited new novel finds Detective Dave Robicheaux back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and embroiled in the most harrowing and dangerous case of his career. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high school honor student, doesn’t fit: she is not the kind of hapless and marginalized victim psychopaths usually prey upon. Robicheaux and his best friend, Clete Purcel, confront Herman Stanga, a notorious pimp and crack dealer whom both men despise. When Stanga turns up dead shortly after a fierce beating by Purcel, in front of numerous witnesses, the case takes a nasty turn, and Clete’s career and life are hanging by threads over the abyss. Adding to Robicheaux’s troubles is the matter of his daughter, Alafair, on leave from Stanford Law to put the finishing touches on her novel. Her literary pursuit has led her into the arms of Kermit Abelard, celebrated novelist and scion of a once prominent Louisiana family whose fortunes are slowly sinking into the corruption of Louisiana’s subculture. Abelard’s association with bestselling ex-convict author Robert Weingart, a man who uses and discards people like Kleenex, causes Robicheaux to fear that Alafair might be destroyed by the man she loves. As his daughter seems to drift away from him, he wonders if he has become a victim of his own paranoia. But as usual, Robicheaux’s instincts are proven correct and he finds himself dealing with a level of evil that is greater than any enemy he has confronted in the past. Set against the backdrop of an Edenic paradise threatened by pernicious forces, James Lee Burke’s The Glass Rainbow is already being hailed as perhaps the best novel in the Robicheaux series.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timePronounced obscene when it was first published in 1915, The Rainbow is the epic story of three generations of the Brangwens, a Midlands family. A visionary novel, considered to be one of Lawrence’s finest, it explores the complex sexual and psychological relationships between men and women in an increasingly industrialized world. “Lives are separate, but life is continuous—it continues in the fresh start by the separate life in each generation,” wrote F. R. Leavis. “No work, I think, has presented this perception as an imaginatively realized truth more compellingly than The Rainbow.”

A controversial classic from D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover.Lush with religious and metaphysical imagery, this is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, set against the decline of their rural English existence in the face of industrialization. The novel also treats the most taboo subject of its time, peering intimately into a family’s sexual mores, exposing the dynamics of marriage and physical love as a sexual tug-of-war that is both formidable and inescapable. Visionary and prophetic, The Rainbow was banned in England after its publication in 1915 and was long available in the U.S. only in an expurgated edition.With an Introduction by Daphne Merkin

Milly stepped out of the spooky old shop, right through the wall that wasn’t there anymore and onto a totally strange, deserted hillside. But where were all the busy roads and buildings? The path ahead was lit by a magical rainbow, but her way back was blocked by an eerie mist that swirled up behind her. The shop had vanished. The sea pounding below the cliff sounded dangerously near. She didn’t dare go back; she had to go forward into the unknown.Milly has been swept up by supernatural forces that propel her unwittingly on a perilous journey through a scary and bewildering world of enchanted forests and flooded lands. However she is loyally supported on her way by a tabby kitten called Raindrop and an overweight yellow Labrador called Sunbeam; who bravely help her cope with a variety of hazards, horrors and terrifying monsters. Her most persistent danger is the wicked Rain Witch who pursues her through the shadowy woods on her scooter. The witch is closely followed by her two ghastly hell hounds who use their unearthly searchlight eyes to track Milly down before she accomplishes her mission. A mission that Milly herself doesn’t fully understand until she reaches the end of her journey.

This edition incorporates an original introduction from Moorside Press, including a biography, a critical discussion of Lawrence's place in the history of British Literature and a short contextual discussion of the book.Published in 1915 and banned for obscenities in the same year, The Rainbow was the first half of what Lawrence intended to be a full novel. It concerns three generations of the Brangwen family and how they found individual progress hindered by social conditions. The starts with the marriage of Tom Brangwen to Lydia Lensky, a woman with little will of her own following the death of her husband, and finding herself domiciled in a strange and unforgiving country.In moving the plot through Lydia, past Will and Anna, and onto Ursula the granddaughter, Lawrence shows his characters breaking the confines of the social surroundings. Whether that’s community, class or the pitfalls of fate, he makes a case for personal fulfilment that verges on the religious.

The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D. H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family, particularly focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters.Lawrence's frank treatment of sexual desire and the power plays within relationships as a natural and even spiritual force of life, though perhaps tame by modern standards, caused The Rainbow to be prosecuted in an obscenity trial in late 1915, as a result of which all copies were seized and burnt. After this ban it was unavailable in Britain for 11 years, although editions were available in the USA.The Rainbow was followed by a sequel in 1920, Women in Love. Although Lawrence conceived of the two novels as one, considering the titles The Sisters and The Wedding Ring for the work, they were published as two separate novels at the urging of his publisher. However, after the negative public reception of The Rainbow, Lawrence's publisher opted out of publishing the sequel. This is the cause of the delay in the publishing of the sequel.

When Dave Robicheaux gets the call saying his ex-partner Clete Purcel is in jail for felony assault and resisting arrest, bailing him out is instinctive. After all, Clete is the man who saved Dave's life. But Clete's latest escapade isn't just worrying because it shows his demons are gaining the upper hand; it also brings some of those demons into Dave's life, in the most personal way possible - This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60% of the author's work and as low as 30% with characters and plotlines removed.

This edition includes 10 illustrations. D.H. Lawrence often portrays individuals struggling against the confines of their social environments, and The Rainbow, his powerful precursor to Women in Love, is one of his most famous examples. While the story follows three generations of the Brangwen family, its most scandalous portion details the struggles of a passionate heroine, Ursula, as she pursues her education, and her heart, yet struggles to find fulfillment. Modern readers likely won’t flinch at the mild depictions of lust and sexuality within this 1915 volume, but it was so suggestive at the time of its publishing that every copy in England was burned.