Transcriber’s note: a few brief passages found in other editions, but not in this edition, have been noted as [censored material] as having been probably elided by this publisher by reason of content.

The Rainbow

by D. H. Lawrence

THE
MODERN LIBRARY
NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY D. H. LAWRENCE
Random House is the publisher of
THE MODERN LIBRARY
BENNETT A. CERF ▪ DONALD S. KLOPFER ▪ ROBERT K. HAAS
Manufactured in the United States of America
Printed by Parkway Printing Company Bound by H. Wolff

TO ELSE

Contents

Chapter I. [How Tom Brangwen Married a Polish Lady]
Chapter II. [They Live at the Marsh]
Chapter III. [Childhood of Anna Lensky]
Chapter IV. [Girlhood of Anna Brangwen]
Chapter V. [Wedding at the Marsh]
Chapter VI. [Anna Victrix]
Chapter VII. [The Cathedral]
Chapter VIII. [The Child]
Chapter IX. [The Marsh and the Flood]
Chapter X. [The Widening Circle]
Chapter XI. [First Love]
Chapter XII. [Shame]
Chapter XIII. [The Man’s World]
Chapter XIV. [The Widening Circle]
Chapter XV. [The Bitterness of Ecstasy]
Chapter XVI. [The Rainbow]

Chapter I.
HOW TOM BRANGWEN MARRIED A POLISH LADY

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