The Rainbow (Signet Classics)
by D. H. Lawrence
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Author: D. H. LawrenceIntroduction: Daphne Merkin
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-05
ISBN: 0451530306
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Signet Classics
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Book Review: Works like these may not market today, unfortunately [48]
Summary: 5 Stars
Spanning three full generations, this book focuses primarily on the last generation's woman who was an esprit de vivre - emotionally, mentally and sexually.
Following the bloodlines of the Brangwen family, we learn how a common British citizen married a Polish widow, has his step-daughter Anna marry his brother's son (okay even in today's world as there are no blood commonalities), and watch their daughter fall in and out of love and deliver us ultimately to the rainbow.
The last Brangwen woman, Ursula, receives more than half of the novel's pages. She is a feisty cat who outgrows her puerility to become a reticent teenager and evolves eventually into an officious and deferential school teacher. "She was Woman, she was the whole of Woman in the human order."
Many of the independent characteristics of this woman of the 1930's are akin to the tour de force protagonist in Lady Chatterly's Lover. These are cool women of their day, and would be deemed even hip by today's standards. And, amazingly, many of the educational and vocational tracks of Ursula parallel the writer's youth - teaching for a period of time and education at Nottingham.
D.H. Lawrence's great gift may be his ability to envision things in a woman's perspective in such great detail. I often think I am reading something written by a woman. Having been brought up in separate sex educational facilities, and a "just past" 19th century mentality, one would believe this to be next to impossible. But, apparently it is not. In many respects, Lawrence can rival great novelists like the Bronte sisters whose personal feminine touches make their respective successful novels important even in today's literary world.
Works like these may not market today. Like a black and white film replete with slow dialogue and devoid of car chases and violence, this literature would not be embraced by today's readers. But, it involves detailed encounters of lesbian affairs and premarital sex with soldiers and unmarried pregnancies. Not entirely stale topics.
And, Ursula saw the world for what it is: "She knew that the sordid people who crept hard-scaled and separate on the face of the world's corruption were living still, that the rainbow was arched in their blood . . . would issue to a new germination, to a new growth, rising to the light and the wind and the clean rain of heaven."
If you have the opportunity, read this classic.
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