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2) The rainbow
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English
Description
This novel by the author of Sons and Lovers follows three generations of a family in rapidly changing England.
One of the Modern Library’s 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century
In a story ranging from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, The Rainbow explores the passions and relationships experienced by each generation of the Brangwen family as...
One of the Modern Library’s 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century
In a story ranging from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, The Rainbow explores the passions and relationships experienced by each generation of the Brangwen family as...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood, noted contributor to the New Yorker, has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivion. The act of reading is understood here as the most sacred and personal of activities, and there are brilliant...
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