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The Rainbow (Version 2)

The Rainbow (Version 2)

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Number of Chapters: 28

Length: 19 hours and 27 minutes

Language: English

Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rainbow attempts to situate the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family within the continuous social change marking the Victorian transformation of Britain. Farmer Tom and his Polish wife Lydia, whose peaceful rural existence re-enacts the potent myths of Genesis; artisan Will and the matriarch Anna, who go to live among the industrial and mining communities so rapidly sprung up around Nottingham; finally the restless Ursula who, moving to the city, seeks sexual and emotional fulfilment with the Polish-descended Skrebensky - the three couples are not merely illustrative of the changing times, but allow the author to study in depth the conflict between the outer 'social' selves of those individuals and what he curiously calls the 'inhuman' essential being, the 'is-ness' at the core of their psychical life.

Lawrence evokes this dark, unconscious 'vital core' through a language of breathtaking poetic beauty; a rhythmic incantatory prose which listeners to this recording will find perfectly rendered by Tony Foster, in all its nuances. Like Paul Morel, the hero of the earlier Sons and Lovers, Ursula survives her losses to face a future of uncertain but radiant hope: "She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven." (Summary by Martin Geeson)

CHAPTER I Part 1 - HOW TOM BRANGWEN MARRIED A POLISH LADY (Tony Foster)

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CHAPTER I Part 1 - HOW TOM BRANGWEN MARRIED A POLISH LADY (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER I Part 2 - HOW TOM BRANGWEN MARRIED A POLISH LADY (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER II Part 1 - THEY LIVE AT THE MARSH (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER II Part 2 - THEY LIVE AT THE MARSH (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER III - CHILDHOOD OF ANNA LENSKY (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER IV Part 1 - GIRLHOOD OF ANNE BRANGWEN (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER IV Part 2 - GIRLHOOD OF ANNE BRANGWEN (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER V - WEDDING AT THE MARSH (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER VI Part 1 ANNA VICTRIX (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER VI Part 2 - ANNA VICTRIX (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER VI Part 3 - ANNA VICTRIX (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER VII - THE CATHEDRAL (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER VIII Part 1 - THE CHILD (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER VIII Part 2 - THE CHILD (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER IX - THE MARSH AND THE FLOOD (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER X - THE WIDENING CIRCLE (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER XI Part 1 - FIRST LOVE (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER XI Part 2 - FIRST LOVE (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER XI Part 3 - FIRST LOVE (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER XII - SHAME (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER XIII Part 1 - THE MAN'S WORLD (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER XIII Part 2 - THE MAN'S WORLD (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER XIII Part 3 - THE MAN'S WORLD (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER XIV - THE WIDENING CIRCLE - (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER XV Part 1 - THE BITTERNESS OF ECSTASY (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER XV Part 2 - THE BITTERNESS OF ECSTASY (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER XV Part 3 - THE BITTERNESS OF ECSTASY (Tony Foster)
CHAPTER XVI - THE RAINBOW (Tony Foster)
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