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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2014
      03 January 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139541169
      9781108060462
      9781108057110
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139541169
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 478 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 478 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1900-1945
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry
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    Subjects:
    Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1900-1945
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry
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    David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930) expected The Rainbow to cause a stir. In a characteristically open exploration of sensual and explicit themes, the novel traces more than sixty years of pre-war life and three generations of the Brangwen family. Employing language infused with the rich imagery and repetition of biblical texts to treat all subjects - from the green fields and empty skies of the Brangwen farm through to Ursula's encounter with a female schoolteacher - Lawrence took an assuredly striking approach. However, he was unprepared for the vitriolic attacks of his reviewers. The novel was branded 'utter filth' and 'a mass of obscenity'; it was banned only a month after its publication in 1915, unsold copies being confiscated and destroyed. A second, abridged edition would not appear for another eleven years. Now a landmark in the early modernist canon, the original and unabridged text of 1915 is reissued here.

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