The Rainbow
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The Rainbow was a 1915 novel by British author D.H. Lawrence. It followed three generations of the Brangwen family, focusing in particular on the sexual dynamics of its characters.
Lawrence's frank treatment of sexual desire and the power plays within relationships as a natural and even spiritual force of life, though perhaps tame by modern standards, caused The Rainbow to be prosecuted in an obscenity trial in late 1915, as a result of which all copies were seized and burnt. After this ban it was unavailable in Britain for 11 years, although editions were available in the USA.
The Rainbow was followed by a sequel, Women in Love, in 1920 although they were originally conceived as one novel called variously The Sisters or The Wedding Ring.
Standard edition
- The Rainbow (1915), edited by Mark Kinkead-Weekes, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0521009448
Categories: Book stubs | Novels of D.H. Lawrence | 1915 books | Modern Library 100 best novels | English novels
