'The Rainbow'.
If for no other reason, discovering DH Lawrence in 6th Form English Lit made going to school, the whole thing in its entirety, worthwhile.
I'm in re-read mode and 50 pages in to the second book of The Big Three - 'The Rainbow', soaring over the fields between 'Sons and Lovers' and 'Women in Love'.
How unexpected to be re-reading with something close to sheer excitement.
'The Rainbow' published in September 1915 and banned within weeks, despite Lawrence already having been persuaded to cut, cut, and cut, until he finally said, 'no more'.
Bookseller Peter Harrington came across a rare first edition where the first owner had forever fixed the final censorial moment in amber by pasting inside the back cover an account in The Times of prosecutor and magistrate denigrating one of the great English novels, before declaring it fit only to be burned.
