Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence: The Rainbow Parts 1 and 2 (Other)

from DinadansFriend

A character study of Ursula Brangwine, and her personal growth process, at least according to Lawrence's standards. It shows a good deal about the Middle Class life of provincial Edwardian England. Later feminists do not rate this book highly. Originally published in 1915, it was a groundbreaking...

from barringer

I thought that the first half, describing the early life of Anna, was great. Through 'Anna Victorix', I would have said that this was one of the best books I had ever read. The writing was beautiful and very moving at times. The characters were very sympathetic and, in this book, that mattered gr...

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It took me longer than I expected to finish this book, in part because it took a long while for the story to get interesting. Three generations of a family are depicted in this novel, and the last portion - concerning Ursula - is the most famous and interesting. A lot of the book is repetitive, w...

from stillatim

David Lodge's blurb for this is: "Lawrence is the most Dostoevskian of English novelists." He means that both sides of an ideological dispute get their say; here, individual vs community, religion vs materialism, idealism vs realism all get played out in the consciousness of individual characters...

from hlselz

To be honest, I read about 3/4 of this book, then skipped to the last chapter. I love Lawrence, but could not handle any more of his lengthy sentences. This book (unless I missed some very important part) is about life. About the choices we have, and the difficulty in choosing the "right" path. A...