The Rainbow

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David Herbert Lawrence

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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 the twentieth century.

The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to early years of the twentieth century. Within this historical framework Lawrence's essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters and he explores the pressures that determine their lives, using a religious symbolism in which the 'rainbow' of the title is his unifying motif...
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