The Rainbow

D. H. Lawrence · 1915 CE · Novel · English · Modernist

Three generations of Brangwens farm at Marsh in Nottinghamshire, and each marriage tests how much of another person can actually be reached. Tom takes a Polish widow, her daughter Anna marries his nephew Will, and Anna's daughter Ursula goes out to school, to teaching and to a life she means to choose. Desire as a force of nature.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ Jude the Obscure
  Thomas Hardy · 1895 CE · Novel
• alludes to ↑ Genesis
  Anonymous · c. 550 BCE · Scripture
• ↓ Women in Love
  D. H. Lawrence · 1920 CE · Novel — continues this

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