The Rainbow

"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.

<b>Keith Cushman</b> is the author of <i>D. H. Lawrence at Work</i>. The books he has edited or coedited include <i>The Letters of D. H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell 1914–1925</i> and Lawrence’s <i>Memoir of Maurice Magnus</i> as well as two collections of essays, <i>The Challenge of D. H. Lawrence</i> and <i>D. H. Lawrence’s Literary Inheritors</i>. He is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>