The RainbowSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Pronounced 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.” |
Contents
HOW TOM BRANGWEN MARRIED A POLISH LADY | 3 |
THEY LIVE AT THE MARSH | 45 |
CHILDHOOD OF ANNA LENSKY | 76 |
GIRLHOOD OF ANNA BRANGWEN | 92 |
WEDDING AT THE MARSH | 126 |
ANNA VICTRIX | 137 |
THE CATHEDRAL | 188 |
THE CHILD | 202 |
FIRST LOVE | 272 |
SHAME | 322 |
THE MANS WORLD | 341 |
THE WIDENING CIRCLE | 399 |
THE BITTERNESS OF ECSTASY | 414 |
THE RAINBOW | 469 |
NOTES | 483 |
A NOTE ON THE TEXT | 495 |
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