Three generations of the Brangwen family seek fulfillment in love and marriage across a changing rural England.
Books mentioned in The Rainbow (7)
Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson: “the teacher of literature read, in a moving fashion, Tennyson's “Ulysses””
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley: “or Shelley's “Ode to the West Wind””
Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: “Andersen and Grimm were being left behind for the “Idylls of the King””
Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: “read Shelley or Browning or some work about “Woman and Labour””
As You Like It by William Shakespeare: “one afternoon, reading As You Like It”
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: “He bought her a copy of Wuthering Heights from a bookstall.”
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells: “She was reminded of the Invisible Man, who was a piece of darkness made visible only by his clothes.”
Books that mention The Rainbow (5)
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “'Ulysses, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Rainbow "discharge their emotions inside the book itself, producing the catharsis of art."'”
A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk: “‘From the first’, writes D. H. Lawrence in The Rainbow, the baby stirred in the young father a deep, strong emotion”
Coventry by Rachel Cusk: “The Rainbow came into the world more or less without literary antecedents. Nothing like it had been written before”
Spring by Ali Smith: “'D H Lawrence in het Duits, de roman De regenboog' read by Rilke”
The Last Supper by Rachel Cusk: “'In The Rainbow Lawrence writes of the operation of culture as a form of grace in human evolution.'”