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Thursday, 1 September 2011

How not to write a blurb.

If I could link this to some people, I would. You know who you are.
The Rainbow, one of the masterpieces of D. H. Lawrence, traces the story of three generations of Brangwen family descendant from a long line of small landowners who had owned Marsh Farm in Nottinghamshire. He has created a new kind of novel with a total meaning dependent not on the moral pattern displayed by the shape of the action, but by the inter-relating of this pattern with powerful symbolic patterns of suggestion and by the interposition of critical scenes which, while realized with a fierce minuteness of psychological accuracy, are yet more than examples of psychological truth. It is the combination of psychological realism and poetic symbolism that marks the book as one of the great English novels of all times.

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