After the death of her much older husband, in a bitterly fought court case Lady Mason is accused of forging his will to give her son the property of Orley Farm. Examining the imperfect workings of the legal system, Orley Farm was considered by Trollope's friends as 'the best I have written'.
The Rainbow (Oxford World’s Classics)
✍ Scribed by D. H. Lawrence, Kate Flint
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press USA - OSO
- Year
- 1997;2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 342 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0191564877
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✦ Synopsis
The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than 60 years, setting them against the emergence of modern England. In her introduction to this edition Kate Flint illuminates Lawrence's aims and achievements against the background of the burgeoning century.
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