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著者： D・H・ロレンス

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Three generations of Brangwens look from a Derbyshire farm toward a wider world, and Ursula wants all of it.

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虹の概要

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ライブラリ内の難易度: 読み応えがあります long sentences, a rich vocabulary
初版刊行年: 1915by D・H・ロレンス

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虹 in short

Tom Brangwen, a farmer who cannot learn from books, meets the Polish widow Lydia and finds a marriage that is an unknown country. Anna and Will fight for closeness and for space until each can be alone. Their daughter Ursula carries the family hunger into an age of schools, mines and trains.

What 虹 is about

What do you hand down to your children, the land you work or the hunger you feel? At Marsh Farm, on the Derbyshire side of the river Erewash, the Brangwens have farmed for generations. Yet the women stand at the front window, looking toward the church tower and the wider world.

The Rainbow, published by D. H. Lawrence in 1915, follows three generations of this family from farm life into an industrial age. It moves from Tom Brangwen to his stepdaughter Anna and her husband Will, and on to their daughter Ursula. Each asks how two people can love and still remain themselves.

対象読者. Readers who love family sagas across three generations will enjoy this novel, especially those drawn to vivid feelings, bodies and landscapes, and to marriage, faith and work.

The story in 11 parts

Key idea 1 · free to read
The Brangwens face the soil while women watch the horizon
The book begins with a family divided by the way its members face. The Brangwen men live at Marsh Farm with their backs to the road and their eyes on the fields.
The women look the other way. The front windows face the lane, the village church and the distant world of towns. A Brangwen wife watches the vicar of Cossethay, small and lean beside her big husband, and sees that he holds a power that has nothing to do with money. She decides it is knowledge, and she longs to win it for her children.
Then around 1840 a canal is cut across the meadows, followed by a colliery and a railway.
Longing for what lies beyond is the real inheritance of the Brangwens.
2
Young Tom Brangwen wants more than the farm gives
Tom, the youngest son, is his mother's favorite, and she sets her heart on making him a gentleman.
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A Polish widow walks into Tom's ordinary life
One early spring day Tom walks beside his loaded cart down the hill from Cossethay and meets a small woman in a long black cloak and bonnet.
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Marriage is wonder, distance and a child between them
On the wedding day Tom feels as if he faces something enormous and unknown.
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Anna and Will Brangwen marry and fight on both sides
Anna grows into a proud, defiant girl who dreams of being royal.
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Ursula grows up loving her father and testing the world
Ursula is the first daughter, the one her father Will takes as his own.
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Ursula meets a soldier, a teacher and a mine town
At sixteen Ursula falls in love with Anton Skrebensky, a young army engineer who seems complete in himself.
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Teaching and college show Ursula the machine world
Ursula is hired at Brinsley Street school in Ilkeston, a grim brick building in a poor part of town.
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Love is a test of how far two selves can touch
The first theme is the central one: can two people love and stay separate?
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Faith and work ask Ursula what a life is for
The second theme is what a person serves.
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The telling moves in waves and symbols, not plot
Lawrence tells this story in a voice that circles and repeats.
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Characters, plot and themes

Main characters

Tom Brangwen A farmer at Marsh Farm who cannot learn from books, and who feels a hunger for a wider, finer life.
Lydia Lensky A Polish widow and vicarage housekeeper who marries Tom and carries a silent past and a young daughter.
Anna Brangwen Lydia's daughter, proud and defiant, who marries her cousin and wants a life of her own at home.
Will Brangwen Anna's husband, a lace draughtsman who loves church architecture and longs for a spiritual home.
Ursula Brangwen Anna and Will's eldest daughter, who wants independence, knowledge and a love that does not shrink her.
Anton Skrebensky A young army engineer who loves Ursula, hopes to marry her and expects to serve the empire.
Winifred Inger Ursula's teacher, a strong, skeptical woman who draws her into a close, shadowed friendship.
Tilly The cross-eyed servant at Marsh Farm who adores Tom and keeps the old spirit of the house alive.

How it ends (spoiler)

After her fierce break with Skrebensky, Ursula submits to a conventional future and writes to him, but she gets no answer. Walking in the rain, she is frightened by a crowd of horses and falls ill. She loses the child. Skrebensky marries another woman. In her recovery, Ursula sheds her old ties like a shell and sees a rainbow over the colliery town. She believes the world can be made new.

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『虹』についての質問

What is The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence about?

It follows three generations of the Brangwen family in the English Midlands, from farmer Tom Brangwen through his stepdaughter Anna to her daughter Ursula, as each tries to find love, faith and work that feel true.

Who is Ursula Brangwen in The Rainbow?

Ursula is Anna and Will Brangwen's eldest daughter and the main figure of the last part of the book. She wants independence, tests her faith, loves a soldier and a teacher, and trains to work as a teacher herself.

Why is the novel called The Rainbow?

The rainbow is an image of promise and passage. Anna sees it as an arch beyond her house, and it stands for the door between a settled life and the unknown. The book keeps returning to arches, doors and thresholds.

When was The Rainbow written and was it banned?

Lawrence published it in 1915. Police seized copies and a court ordered the book destroyed, so it was not sold openly in Britain for years. It is fiction, but it draws on the Nottinghamshire mining world he knew.

Is The Rainbow easy to read?

It rewards a relaxed pace. The scenes are vivid and concrete, with farms, markets, weddings, floods and classrooms, and the three generations give you a clear shape to follow. Lawrence's rhythms are close to spoken language and work well read aloud.

この版を引用します

Lawrence, D. H. The Rainbow. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-rainbow.

Lawrence, D. H. (2026). The rainbow. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-rainbow (Original work published 1915)

Lawrence, D. H. The Rainbow. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-rainbow.

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  author = {Lawrence, D. H.},
  title = {The Rainbow},
  publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-rainbow},
  note = {First published 1915}
}