The Rainbow

Name: The Rainbow
Author: D. H. Lawrence
ISBN: 9781909175419

Author: D. H. Lawrence
Series: Timeless Classics
Language: English
Length: 446 pages
ISBN: 9781909175419
Published: 14 July 2012
Imprint: Egoist Press

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The rainbow
female homosexuality
relationships
modernism
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mental health
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Description

The novel follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, focusing on relations and sexual dynamics of the characters. The Rainbow represents Lawrence's frank treatment of sexual desire and the power it plays within relationships as a natural and even spiritual force of life, and explores the topic of female homosexuality.

Author

D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) wrote as a prophet of authentic living in an age of machines. Novelist, poet, and essayist, he traced how industrial England suffocated instinct — and how love, nature, and honest desire might restore it. From the coal-country childhood of Sons and Lovers to the contested passion of Lady Chatterley's Lover, his fiction asks what it means to be fully alive when society prefers you obedient.

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