Other editions of book The Rainbow

D. H. Lawrence expected The Rainbow to have 'a bit of a fight' before it was accepted, but 'The fight will have to be made, that is all'. It was suppressed, just over a month after publication, in November 1915. The American publisher would make thirteen further cuts and 'dribble out' the book quietly. In 1930 the British government would again consider suppressing a new printing of The Rainbow. Professor Mark Kinkead-Weekes gives the composition history and collates the surviving states of the text to assess the damage done to Lawrence's novel, and to provide a text as close to that which the author wrote as is now possible. The final manuscript, revisions in the typescript and the first edition are recorded in full in the textual apparatus so the reader can follow the novel's development and evaluate what outside interference may have done to it. Also included are explanatory notes to historical references and allusions, and an interior chronology of the book itself.

One of D.H. Lawrence's finest and most controversial works, The Rainbow introduced sexual life into the family-chronicle novel, portraying a visionary quest for love by three generations of English men and women. This Bantam Classic features beautiful, classic cover art and an introduction by Jeffrey Meyers, author of D.H. Lawrence: A Biography. Previously published by New Addition.

Set in the rural midlands of England, this novel revolves around three generations of the Brangwen family. Beginning with the passionate marriage of Tom Brangwen and a Polish widow, it traces their tumultuous relationship, as well as the development of their daughter, Ursula, a spirited young woman who rejects the conventional expectations of society in search of self-fulfillment. 4 cassettes.

From the back cover: "The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of a passionate Nottinghamshire family whose love affairs move backward and forward across the years, and is the first part of a trilogy that also includes Women in Love and Aaron's Rod. Almost immediately upon its publication in 1915 it was prosecuted and banned. [Richard] Aldington says: 'It is incredible that a book so passionate, so poetic, so full of the pith of life and the loveliness of Nature should have been labelled as pornography.'"

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