All copies of The Rainbow were seized and burnt. The novel was not published in Britain for 11 years. This book is important.
More ulterior motives for this reaction against the book, perhaps, include the fear of sharpness of Lawrence’s openness in divulging man’s inner weaknesses and the reluctance to accept the helpless dependence that is essentially materialistic in nature.
The Rainbow, published first in 1915, is the complete and exquisitely organized form of D.H. Lawrence’s views about family relationships. The novel relates the story of three generations of an English family–the Brangwens. As the main characters move in and out of the story’s framework, readers are brought face-to-face before an intriguing theory of passion and power among the familiar social roles of husbands, wives, children, and parents.
