Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Pronounced obscene when it was first published in 1915, The Rainbow is the epic story of three generations of the Brangwens, a Midlands family. A visionary novel, considered to be one of Lawrenceβs finest, it explores the complex sexual and psychological relationships between men and women in an increasingly industrialized world. βLives are separate, but life is continuousβit continues in the fresh start by the separate life in each generation,β wrote F. R. Leavis. βNo work, I think, has presented this perception as an imaginatively realized truth more compellingly than The Rainbow.β