The Rainbow: Introduction by Barbara Hardy (Everymans Library Contemporary Classics)

Lawrence, D H

ISBN 10: 0679423052 / ISBN 13: 9780679423058

Verlag: Everymans Library, 1993

Beschreibung

Good condition book without dust jacket. Boards are mostly clean with a few minor marks. Book has clean and bright contents.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9999-9996123063

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Rainbow: Introduction by Barbara Hardy (Everymans Library Contemporary Classics)
• Verlag: Everymans Library
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0679423052
• ISBN-13: 9780679423058
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

A multi-generational family saga that chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family on their Nottinghamshire farm—and the riveting prequel to Women in Love—from one of the greatest and most controversial writers of the 20th century. 

Rooted in an agrarian past, Tom and Lydia Brangwen and their descendants find themselves navigating a rapidly changing world—a world of unprecedented individualism, alienation, and liberation. Banned after an obscenity trial in 1915 for its frankness about sexuality, THE RAINBOW was most remarkable for the pathbreaking journeys of its female characters, particularly that of Ursula Brangwen, whose destiny Lawrence explored further in his next novel, Women in Love.

In its surface drama, in its capacious and expansive rhythms that so resemble the rhythms of nature itself, THE RAINBOW is one of the world’s great examples of the multi-generational family saga. But the large claim that Lawrence’s masterpiece has made on the attention of readers and critics stems less from this fact than from the deeper parallel history he provides for the Brangwens—a history of the growth of their souls, moving in a great arc from sensuality to self-awareness and freedom.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.