The Rainbow

Three generations. One farm. And the long, slow search for a love that does not destroy.

D.H. Lawrence's most ambitious novel traces the lives of the Brangwen family over sixty years, from the pastoral calm of the Victorian countryside to the chaos of the modern world, and the women who dared to want something more.

Tom Brangwen, a prosperous farmer, marries a Polish widow and discovers that love can cross the barrier of language and class. Their daughter, Anna, rebels against her father's authority and finds a passionate, stormy marriage of her own. But it is Ursula, Anna's daughter, who is the novel's true heroine. She refuses the life offered to her—marriage, children, submission. She takes lovers. She becomes a teacher. She questions God. And in the novel's final, visionary pages, she sees a rainbow arching over the muddy, industrial landscape—a promise that something better is possible.

This is Lawrence at his most lyrical and prophetic: a novel about the awakening of female desire, the death of rural England, and the hope that love can survive the machine age. The Rainbow was banned within months of its publication—and is now recognized as a masterpiece.

• Lawrence's breakthrough experimental novel, published in 1915—and immediately suppressed for obscenity

• The first of the Brangwen sisters novels, followed by Women in Love

• Explores themes of female sexuality, industrial capitalism, and the search for spiritual meaning

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About the Author

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist, one of the most controversial and influential writers of the twentieth century. Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the son of a coal miner and a former schoolteacher, Lawrence drew heavily on his industrial Midlands upbringing. The Rainbow was published in 1915, just one year after the outbreak of World War I. Within months, it was prosecuted for obscenity under the Obscene Publications Act; all copies were ordered destroyed. The suppression effectively banned the novel in the United Kingdom for eleven years. Lawrence was devastated—not only financially but emotionally. The experience drove him to leave England, and he spent much of the rest of his life traveling. The Rainbow is now considered one of the great English novels of the twentieth century. His other major works include Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover(1928). Lawrence died of tuberculosis in France at the age of 44.