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Title: The Rainbow (Oxford World's Classics) by D. H. Lawrence, Kate Flint ISBN: 0-19-283524-6 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Lawrence: the man who knew women
Comment: I successively declare each Lawrence novel I encounter to be the best I've read, but in my opinion, "The Rainbow" is especially brilliant in its painstaking and accurate depiction of the universal experience of adolescence...and especially noteworthy in its spot-on description of the evolving feelings and thoughts of adolescent girls. Lawrence's feeling for and understanding of his female characters is astounding, particularly when compared with that of other writers of his time.
This work is sometimes criticized because of "repetitiveness" in the writing, but I find the repeated phrases add to, not detract from, the power of the novel. As in Lady Chatterley, he also manages to work in many brilliant and cutting observations of the price of progress in an industrial society, and document in careful, keen-eyed accuracy the varying responses of his characters--and, through them, archetypal human responses--to that society.
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite D.H. Lawrence
Comment: Lawrence's fame (or notoriety) rests on his sexual frankness, but what a lot of readers overlook is how well he wrote about parent-child relationships and family dynamics. The beginning of this novel is absolutely brilliant: Tom Brangwen and the Polish widow marry in haste, then find that they still haven't worked out their relationship. Her young daughter is an uneasy third party, and the child's sensitivity to the unease in their household is beautifully described, as well as her stepfather's gentle efforts to befriend her. As Lawrence continues the family history, his usual obsessions surface. But in general, it's a good story: sex is an organic part of his characters' lives rather than the mainspring of the whole plot (as in some of his other novels). And the characters come across as multi-dimensional human beings rather than talking heads (or other organs) for Lawrence's comments on life. A good novel for people who "don't like D.H. Lawrence."
Rating: 4
Summary: Truimph of Ursula
Comment: The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence is a fascinating saga of three generations of Brangwen family. I should have read this book before "Women in Love". Although there is no connection between the two. Numerous characters come and fade away making room for our protagonist, Ursula Brangwen. She is the quintessential Lawrence character, also appeared as Paul Morel in "Sons and Lovers" and Gudrin in "Women in Love". They attain everything they desire and yet reject and abandon what they seek to soar even higher. They surely triumph and that is the beauty of all his creations. I guess if all stories end up "lived happily ever after", then nobody would have heard of Shakespeare.
It must have been a shock to the early 20th century readers of the beautiful lesbian liaison of Ursula and her teacher, not to mention numerous premarital sexual romps with Anton Skrebensky. Lawrence exquisite and poetic prose make it exhilrating and yet sensual. I guess he kept all the graphic detail for "Lady Chatterely's Lover".
It is a great book with chock full of unforgetable charectors in the rich tradition of Dickens and Hardy. I
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Title: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence ISBN: 0451525914 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence ISBN: 0451518829 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: January, 1985 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence ISBN: 0553212621 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty (Introduction) ISBN: 0156907399 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Oxford World's Classics) by Joseph Conrad, Roger Tennant ISBN: 0192834770 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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