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The Rainbow Lawrence's novels is that "In desiring to unite with [the other sex], we are desiring to mingle with something that is deeply - perhaps essentially - not ourselves, and which brings us to experience a character and inwardness that challenge us with their strangeness." Scruton believes that "The Rainbow" vindicates Lawrence's vision. The critic Harold Bloom listed "The Rainbow" in his "The Western Canon" (1994) as one of the books that have been important and influential in Western culture. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked "The Rainbow" forty-eighth on a list of the 100 best novels in English of the