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The Rainbow
D. H. Lawrence
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Description for The Rainbow
Paperback. The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than 60 years, setting them against the emergence of modern England. In her introduction to this edition Kate Flint illuminates Lawrence's aims and achievements against the background of the burgeoning century. Editor(s): Flint, Kate. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 374.
To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinity This 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 customary limitations of language and convention to carry into the structure of his prose the fascination with boundaries and space that characterize the entire novel. Condemned and suppressed on its first publication for its open treatment of sexuality and its `unpatriotic' spirit, the novel chronicles ... Read more
To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinity This 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 customary limitations of language and convention to carry into the structure of his prose the fascination with boundaries and space that characterize the entire novel. Condemned and suppressed on its first publication for its open treatment of sexuality and its `unpatriotic' spirit, the novel chronicles ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
371g
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199553853
SKU
V9780199553853
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About D. H. Lawrence
Kate Flint is University Lecturer in Victorian and Modern English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 (OUP, 1993), and has edited World's Classics editions of Dickens, Trollope, and Woolf.
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