The Rainbow

9 hrs. 24 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author David Lawrence

Narrator Yury Zaborovsky

Description

The published novel is the first part of a duology by the well-known English prose writer of the twentieth century D. G. Lawrence (1885–1930). The novel tells the fates of several generations of the Brengwene family of farmers, focusing closely on depicting the inner world of the characters. The story traces a number of personal relationships—above all the relationships between Tom Brengwin and Lydia Lensky, Will and Anna, Ursula and Skrebensky. Lawrence wonderfully knows that one’s personal relationships do not exist in a vacuum. No character in “The Rainbow” is pulled out of the context of circumstances and connections, experiences, and events that made them what they are. Customs change, evolve, and yet preserve their core. Despite his obvious tendency to seek generalizations when it comes to personal relationships, Lawrence never forgets, for even a moment, the fundamentally different premises that underlie the entire setting.