D. H. Lawrence started 'The Sisters' in March 1913, wrote four different versions and claimed to have discarded 'quite a thousand pages' before completing The Rainbow in May 1915. The novel was suppressed, just over a month after publication, in November 1915. Mark Kinkead-Weekes gives the composition history and collates the surviving states of the text to assess the damage done to Lawrence's great novel, and to provide a text as close to that which the author wrote as is now possible. The final manuscript, revisions in the typescript and the first edition are recorded in the full textual apparatus so the reader can follow the development of the novel and evaluate what outside interference might have done to it. Appendixes give the earliest, unpublished fragments from the first two versions and a newly discovered report and summary of the third. Published in two volumes.
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October 1993 : Hardback
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December 1991 : Library Binding
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January 1998 : Paperback
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May 1995 : Paperback
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March 1995 : Paperback
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October 1993 : Paperback
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September 1991 : Paperback
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January 1991 : Mass Market Paperback
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October 1989 : Paperback
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June 1989 : Paperback
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May 1989 : Paperback
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March 1989 : Paperback
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March 1984 : Paperback
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1984 : Paperback
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1983 : Paperback
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September 1981 : Paperback
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1980 : Paperback
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1979 : Paperback
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1978 : Paperback
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1976 : Paperback
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1975 : Paperback
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1973 : Paperback
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1966 : Paperback
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1965 : Paperback
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1964 : Paperback
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1963 : Paperback
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1958 : Mass Market Paperback
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1954 : Mass Market Paperback
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1949 : Paperback
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1942 : Paperback
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1939 : Paperback
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1934 : Paperback
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1915 : Paperback
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September 2000 : Audio Cassette
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June 1995 : Audio Cassette
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