THE ATHENAEUMThe RainbowD. H. Lawrence
Contested
The Rainbow
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textThree generations of the Brangwen family on the borders of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, from the farm to the mining town, and Ursula, who wants more than any of them. Weeks after it was published in 1915 the police seized it, and a magistrate ordered more than a thousand copies destroyed as obscene. Lawrence’s publisher did not defend it.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 12 hr 30 min
- Where to find it
- The Unwelcome Spines, beyond the Restricted Catalogue
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #28948. In the public domain in the United States.