The Rainbow
de D.H. LAWRENCE
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Potomac, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este artículo
First American edition of the author's contentious fourth novel, which was expurgated following its seizure in England. Near fine in tan buckram stamped black, lacking dust jacket. Square and tight with no cocking. Title-page verso bears a copyright date of 1915, while the title-page is dated 1916. Roberts gives date of publication as 15 November 1915, complicating issues by noting that Huebsch "published a more expensive edition of The Rainbow in 1916 [A7 note, p28]." The second and third printings from Huebsch however are explicitly dated 1921 & 1922 respectively. Copies with a 1915 title-page, if they ever did exist, appear not to have survived. A brilliant copy of the first American edition, cloth fresh, stamping vivid; 'marred' solely by an ink name neat at crown. 8vo. 480pp]: [x], 470 (last leaf blank). Rare in such exemplary condition.
Sinopsis
D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow follows three generations of the Brangwen family, with a particular focus on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters. Tom Brangwen, who is… let’s say “not the brightest,” succeeds to his father’s farm and falls in love with Lydia Lensky, a Polish widow; Anna, Lydia’s daughter (and Tom’s stepdaughter), marries Will, a distant relative of Tom’s; Anna and Will’s oldest daughter, Ursula, is a modern working woman. For Tom Brangwen’s generation sex happens, but between the lines. For Anna and Will, bodies are alluded to and desires described. By the time Ursula Brangwen is a young woman, sex is frequent and directly addressed. This depiction of sexual desire as a natural force — perhaps spiritual, even! — caused quite a stir upon The Rainbow’s publication. The novel was almost instantly removed from the shelves of bookstores across the UKcountry and was then prosecuted in an obscenity trial in a British Magistrates’ court in November 1915, just two months after its release. As a result, roughly half of the copies of the novel’s original print run of were seized and burnt. The Rainbow was unavailable in the UK for 11 years following. Lawrence initially conceived The Rainbow and what became its sequel, Women in Love, as a single novel titled The Sisters. However, after much revision, that manuscript became two of the author’s greatest novels. The Rainbow is ranked 48th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century; Women in Love is ranked 49th.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Grinning Cat Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 31483
- Título
- The Rainbow
- Autor
- D.H. LAWRENCE
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- B.W HUEBSCH
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1916
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Catálogos del vendedor
- LITERATURE;
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