num_pages: 528
description: 'Lawrence is the most Dostoevskian of English novelists, in whose best work conflicting ideological positions are brought into play and set up against each other in dialogue that is never simply or finally resolved.'--David LodgeSet in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow revolves around three generations of the Brangwens, a family deeply involved with the land and noted for their strength and vigour. When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish widow, Lydia Lensky, and adopts her daughter Anna as his own, he is unprepared for the conflict and passion that erupts between them. All are seeking individual fulfilment through their relationships and instead discover a new consciousness. It is Ursula, Anna's spirited daughter, who chooses something other than the conventional path offered to women in her own search for self-knowledge.This Penguin edition reproduces the Cambridge text which, after many alterations The Rainbow underwent before original publication in 1915, provides a text as close as possible to that which Lawrence wrote.
language: English
title: The Rainbow
titlecomplete: The Rainbow
characters: Ursula Brangwen, Anton Skrebensky, Tom Brangwen, Gudrun Brangwen, Anna Brangwen
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance, British Literature
ratings_count: 20297
places: England, Midlands, England, Nottinghamshire, England
series: Brangwen Family
publisher: Penguin Books