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Lady Chatterley's Lover (Wordsworth Classics) by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Notes and Introduction by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition. The famous'Lady Chatterley trial'heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery. Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the conservativism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde and from feminists. The story of how the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds when her husband returns from the war paralysed from the waist down, and of the tender love which then develops between her and her husband's gamekeeper, is a complex one open to a variety of conflicting interpretations. This edition of the novel offers an occasion for a new generation of readers to discover what all the fuss was a

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Author

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930

Publisher

Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781840224887

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Political Science

Rating

4.4 / 5 (362 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14