Examines the relationship between the son of a poor coal miner and his mother, traces three generations in the life of the Brangwen family, and looks at the love affairs of two sisters.
D. H. Lawrence's THE RAINBOW, declared obscene when it was published in 1915, is the passionately written chronicle of three generations of a Nottingham farming family. Tom Brangwen marries a widow named Lydia Lensky; Lydia's daughter Anna ...