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This book includes The Rainbow and Lady Chatterley’s Lover, two masterpieces from the great writer D.H. Lawrence, who shocked the world with the sensuality of his subject matter, the sheer power and energy of his prose.

The Rainbow is thought by many to be his finest novel. Spanning three generations of the Brangwen family in the rural English Midlands, the novel traces their changing relationships, emotional struggles, and desires for connection as industrialization sweeps across the landscape. It explores the conflict between societal conformity and the primal, instinctual, and spiritual passions of human nature

Lady Chatterley’s Lover was branded obscene only 40 years ago, and yet now is heralded as a masterpiece of modern fiction. The novel follows Lady Constance Chatterley, a wealthy woman married to an aristocratic war veteran paralyzed from the waist down. Feeling emotionally isolated, Constance engages in a passionate affair with Oliver Mellors, her husband’s working-class gamekeeper.
It heavily scrutinizes class divisions, the emptiness of the industrial upper class, and the liberating power of authentic human intimacy. It was heavily controversial for its explicit language and frank treatment of female sexuality.