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Author: (British) Lawrence Huang Yushi
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The Rainbow is one of D.H. Lawrence's two mature masterpieces (the other being its companion piece Women in Love), and also his longest novel. It unfolds as a family saga, narrating the experiences and transformations of three generations of the self-sufficient Branwell family. With unprecedented passion and depth in British fiction, it explores psychological issues related to sexuality, seeking to establish the possibility of natural and harmonious sexual relationships through the depiction of normal and abnormal sexual interactions among three generations. Lawrence himself believed that "it indeed has fresh elements in the art of the novel" and is a "study of the relationship between the sexes." The novel is poetic, deeply symbolic, and aesthetically rich, ranking as one of the greatest long novels of the 20th century.