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Author: (English) D.H. Lawrence
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Publish Date: 2006-08-23
Features: D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was a renowned British novelist and poet. The Rainbow is one of his two most mature works (the other being its companion piece Women in Love), and also his longest novel. The work unfolds as a family saga, narrating the experiences and transformations of three generations of the self-sufficient Brangwen family. It explores the psychological aspects of sexuality with unprecedented passion and depth in British literature, seeking the possibility of establishing natural and harmonious sexual relationships through the depiction of both normal and abnormal sexual interactions among three generations. Lawrence himself believed that "it indeed has many fresh aspects 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.