The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

Set in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow covers three generations in the lives of the Brangwen family, but it is much more than a family history. Using the language of religious experience, Lawrence develops his awareness of the struggle of the individual human consciousness to confront an unknowable, infinite reality beyond the commonplace social self.

Suppressed within six weeks of its first publication in 1915, The Rainbow has been consistently misrepresented and misunderstood. It is a work of the metaphysical imagination, continually locating the lives of its characters in scenes of the most marvelous and tender realism, bus always moving towards a sense of the "beyond."

Penguin Books 1981 paperback in good condition. Personal inscription on the inside cover.