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This is a three-generation family saga, set in Nottinghamshire, starting in Victorian times and ending before fears of WW1 loomed. Except that it isn’t that: the brief Introduction summarises all the key characters, careers, couplings, births and deaths.
Events are mere tools and waypoints, not the purpose or destination, because this is not primarily a story: it’s an experience of passions, clothed in elliptically floral, fiery, watery imagery, stained deep with Biblical themes.
But these are n ...more
My actual review is here. It’s a brief, emotional response, rather than a traditional review.
What follows below is just a collection of quotes, grouped loosely by theme, plus a (very) few comments about the change of tone at the end (not spoilers, as the events I’ve alluded to are made plain in the book’s Introduction).
As 2014 crossed into 2015, I was reading Stoner for the first - and second - time.
As 2015 crossed into 2016, I was reading Lawrence for the first time in so long it might have be ...more
What follows below is just a collection of quotes, grouped loosely by theme, plus a (very) few comments about the change of tone at the end (not spoilers, as the events I’ve alluded to are made plain in the book’s Introduction).
As 2014 crossed into 2015, I was reading Stoner for the first - and second - time.
As 2015 crossed into 2016, I was reading Lawrence for the first time in so long it might have be ...more
Like reading my own feelings.
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Sarath Krishnan
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The rainbow, story of the Brangwen family, is intersting in many ways. It was banned soon after its publication because of the open dealings with sex. Lawrence attacked the hypocratic,false morality of the society. It is worth reading today,because our society didn't changed much.
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