Books with title The Glass Rainbow

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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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. Two miles away, a church-tower stood on a hill, the houses of the little country town climbing assiduously up to it. Whenever one of the Brangwens in the fields lifted his head from his work, he saw the church-tower at Ilkeston in the empty sky. So that as he turned again to the horizontal land, he was aware of something standing above him and beyond him in the distance.