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D. H. Lawrence: The Rainbow: Brief Summary And Comment

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Lawrence, D. H.

Lawrence, D. H.
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Rainbow: Brief Summary And Comment

The Rainbow is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a
family of farmers which has held the Marsh Farm, on the Derbyshire -
Nottinghamshire borders, from - it seems - time immemorial. The first Brangwen
Lawrence deals with is Tom Brangwen, whom we meet when he is still in his
twenties. At the beginning of the novel, he is lonely, sexually frustrated and
unfulfilled. Then one day he passes a strange woman on the road and "That's
her," he says involuntarily to himself; like many of Lawrence's ...

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