The Rainbow

by D. H. Lawrence , Edited by Mark Kinkead-Weekes

• ISBN13: 9780521228695
• ISBN10: 0521228697
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-03-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

"Set in the rural Midlands of England, The Rainbow (1915) revolves around three generations of the Brangwens, a strong, vigorous family, deeply involved with the land. When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish widow, Lydia Lensky, and adopts her daughter Anna as his own, he is unprepared for the passion that erupts between them. All are seeking individual fulfillment, but it is Ursula, Anna's spirited daughter, who, in her search for self-knowledge, rejects the traditional role of womanhood." "In his introduction, James Wood discusses Lawrence's writing style and the tensions and themes of The Rainbow. This Penguin edition reproduces the Cambridge text, which provides a text as close as possible to Lawrence's original. It also includes suggested further reading, a fragment of 'The Sisters II' from his first draft, and chronologies of Lawrence's life and of The Rainbow's Brangwen family."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Oxford World's Classics	p. ii
Introduction	p. vii
Note On The Text	p. xxiv
Select Bibliography	p. xxvii
A Chronology Of D. H. Lawrence	p. xxix
How Tom Brangwen Married a Polish Lady	p. 5
They Live at the Marsh	p. 48
Childhood of Anna Lensky	p. 80
Girlhood of Anna Brangwen	p. 96
Wedding at the Marsh	p. 131
Anna Victrix	p. 142
the Cathedral	p. 195
the Child	p. 209
the Marsh and the Flood	p. 238
the Widening Circle	p. 259
First Love	p. 281
Shame	p. 332
the Man's World	p. 351
the Widening Circle	p. 411
the Bitterness of Ecstasy	p. 426
the Rainbow	p. 482
Explanatory Notes	p. 495
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