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What happened to unsold copies of The Rainbow after it was banned?
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D.H. Lawrence
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After the novel The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence was officially banned in 1915 for being labeled obscene, all unsold copies were confiscated. The legal suppression of the book was influenced by an element of war hysteria, though the specific grounds for the ban involved a homoerotic episode depicted in the story.12