Rainbow, The by D. H. Lawrence; 1915/1995. Hardcover.

This is the special Book-of-the-Month Edition.

First published in 1915, The Rainbow is the sweeping saga of three generations in England's Brangwen family--particularly Ursula Brangwen, a sensitive and rebellious woman and one of this century's most complex literary characters. Here (and in his later novel "Women in Love") D.H. Lawrence traces the rise of Ursula's independent personality and her troubling relationships with both men and women, among them the Polish emigré Anton Skrebensky, with whom she shares her most passionate bond, and Winifred Inger, a teacher who later marries Ursula's uncle. Denounced as obscene and seized by the police when it was first published, The Rainbow is now hailed as a testament to the powers of literary innovator of the highest caliber, one unafraid to test the boundaries of literature into fresh--and risky--frontiers.