The Rainbow

lingua English

Pubblicato il 10 Luglio 2021 da Standard Ebooks.

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The Rainbow is an epic tale spanning three generations of Brangwens, a family of farmers living in Nottinghamshire around the time of the Industrial Revolution. The tale begins with Tom Brangwen, the very epitome of a rural English farmer leading the old way of life. We follow him as a youth easing in to the rhythm of rural existence. He soon falls in love with Lydia, a Polish immigrant he had hired as a housekeeper, and despite their vast cultural differences, the two marry. Their relationship is, in a word, satisfactory: the two face a language and culture barrier that prevents their minds from ever truly meeting, but they learn to be more or less content with their place in society and in raising their children.

        <p>Lydia’s child by her first marriage, Anna, becomes the focus of the next part of the novel. She was born in England, and has …

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Argomenti

  • Domestic fiction
  • Family -- England -- Midlands -- Fiction
  • Midlands (England) -- Fiction