Pros: Beautiful writing. Cons: Black hearted, horrible characters, no plot, etc.
D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow has been surrounded with shocked scintillation and hyped up hubbub since its banned status in the early 1900s. Rumored as being chocked full of forbidden pleasures, X-rated scenarios, and bubbling brews of ...
Pros: very in depth, sexuality with a tinge of class Cons: long and repetitive!!!, also racy, may not be appropriate for all
Anyone who has read this book will identify with the title of this review. Many times, a character in "The Rainbow" would say how they could not stand the characteristics of another, yet they wanted to marry, to get to know better, or to be...
Pros: Identifying with Ursula and her plight. Cons: Too many families in a very short time.
The Marsh Farm sets the beginning of the Brangwen family. Quickly, the focus moves to the cottage by the church. The first generation of Brangwen's have a dark bond between them that seems to engulf them and spit them out in some twisted cycle. The...
Pros: good use of figurative language making the story thrilling and heart felt Cons: A bit too much detail in some parts and over writing perhaps not needed
Lawrence's writing is neat, precise and enthralling. He tackles issues of sexual orientation, feminism and womanhood with a delicate yet harsh reality that makes the reader want to read on. He deals with these issues about women in a sensitive way, the...
Set in the rural midlands of England, "The Rainbow" revolves around three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than sixty years, s...More at HotBookSale
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Pronounced obscene when it was first published in 1915, The Rainbow is the epic story of three generations of the Brangwens, a Midlands family. A visi...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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