The Rainbow (Original) (Leather Bounded)

The Rainbow (Original) (Leather Bounded)

byD.H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow is an audacious family chronicle and a radical love story, charting three generations of the Brangwens as they push against the limits of marriage, work, and spirit from farmhouse to factory to schoolroom, each life straining toward a fuller light; Lawrence writes the pulse of desire and the ache of becoming with a clarity that still feels modern, turning ordinary scenes into crucibles where identity is forged and old certainties melt. Beginning with Tom and Lydia, moving through Anna and Will, and arriving at Ursula’s fierce search for selfhood, the novel shows how intimacy can liberate or imprison, how education and industry rewire the soul, and how a single person’s hunger for meaning can redraw the map of a family; storms, classrooms, chapels, fields, railway platforms, and city streets all become stages where the characters test what love and freedom actually demand. The themes travel cleanly for students and book clubs—sexual awakening and its ethics, the collision of tradition with modernity, the power and peril of education, the politics inside domestic life, the body as both compass and riddle—while the imagery anchors analysis without turning symbolic top-heavy: rainbows and rivers, windows and thresholds, hands and tools, seasons that mirror inner weather. Lawrence’s sentences are alive to sensation yet braced by thought, giving you pages that invite annotation and lines that carry an argument in a single breath; the result is a novel that reads not like a museum piece but like a companion for anyone trying to live honestly in a time of change. This 2005 leather-bound hardcover, an original print and preowned but fresh copy curated by Pathok Point, gives the book a form worthy of rereads and serious study: durable binding, elegant detailing, and condition selected so pages are clean and the spine is tight, delivering a copy made to be lived with rather than merely displayed. Inside, expect set pieces that teach beautifully without spoilers: Ursula’s classrooms where knowledge and authority wrestle, love scenes that are about power and truth as much as romance, family confrontations where language becomes a blade or a bridge, and landscapes that act like characters, pressing, yielding, revealing. For coursework, the novel is a gift—motifs you can track without strain, character arcs that map to clear questions, and an ending that opens onto possibility rather than tidiness; for general readers, it offers momentum and emotional weather that feel startlingly recognizable; for collectors, the leather binding and original-print credibility add long-term value without turning the book into an artifact you’re afraid to open. Pathok Point’s promise is simple and proven: making books affordable while keeping authenticity and quality front and center, and we can say it plainly because we operate at scale—no one else consistently brings this level of treasure to market at this level of accessibility; as the largest preowned bookseller in BD, we source widely, condition-check carefully, and list only copies truly ready to read and to keep. Inventory reality check: preowned leather-bound originals arrive in small, unpredictable waves and the finest copies move first, so if you’re seeing this available, that’s your cue; whether you’re building a shelf of modernist landmarks, prepping a seminar on love and modernity, or gifting a classic that actually changes the temperature of the room, this edition delivers Lawrence’s charged, luminous prose in a form built to last—add to cart and let the horizon widen.