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The Rainbow by Mark Kinkead-Weekes; Keith Cushman (Introduction by, Notes by); D. H. Lawrence
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels Ser.
To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinityThis is the insight that flashes upon Ursula as she struggles to assert her individuality and to stand separate from her family and her surroundings on the brink of womanhood and the modern world.In The Rainbow (1915) Lawrence challenged the custo ...Show more
The Rainbow by D H Lawrence
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This title is presented with an introduction by Rachel Cusk. Set between the 1840s and the early years of the twentieth century, "The Rainbow" tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, ancient occupiers of Marsh Farm, Nottinghamshire. Through courting, pregnancy, marriage and defiance ...Show more
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of ...Show more
The Rainbow (Penguin pocket classics) by D. H. Lawrence
Category: Classic | Series: Pocket Penguins
'So Ursula became the child of her father's heart.' The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family and their struggles with each other and themselves. Beautiful, strange and with a power all its own, The Rainbow redefined the English novel. A new series of twenty distinctive, ...Show more
The Selected Works of D.H. Lawrence by D H LAWRENCE
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Special Editions Ser.
This selection of Lawrence's work underlines the intensity and innovation that made him one of the most distinctive and important of twentieth-century writers. Sons and Lovers - semi-autobiographical, is a powerful exploration of family, class, sexuality and the suffocating relationships of a man with a ...Show more
The Virgin and the Gipsy by D. H. Lawrence
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Loves
Yvette is an innocent rector's daughter. When she meets a handsome gypsy she feels him watching her, acutely aware of her virginity. Half drawn to him and half afraid, it is only when her life is endangered that she finally feels true love. United by the theme of love, the writings in the "Great Loves" ...Show more
Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence
Category: Biography
In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence traveled to northern Italy. He spent nearly a year on the shores of Lake Garda, lodged in elegantly decaying houses set amid lemon groves and surrounded by the fading life of traditional Italy. It was here that he wrote Sons and Lovers and here too that we see the early fl ...Show more