The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire, and is a metaphysical enquiry into the possibilities that human relationships hold amid the uncompromising circumstances of industrial culture, which Lawrence continued in women in love. Throughout the novel the rainbow symbolises each character's search for self-fulfillment. This novel concentrates on the passionate natures of the various Brangwens, in particular those of Ursula who is of the third generation of the family. The frankness with which Lawrence treated sexuality caused the book to be siezed by the police and banned shortly after publication in 1915. Paperback ed 1995
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