Lady Chatterley's Lover
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few novels in the English literary canon have ignited as much controversy — or as much passion — as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, a scorching portrayal of desire, class, and the search for authentic human connection in post-WWI England. The story chronicles Constance (Connie) Chatterley, a spirited young woman trapped in a sterile marriage to Sir Clifford Chatterley, a war-wounded aristocrat paralysed from the waist down, who finds herself drawn into a fierce and forbidden love affair with Oliver Mellors, the estate's gamekeeper — a union that shatters the rigid boundaries of the British class system. Lawrence writes with an unflinching, lyrical intensity, arguing that the industrialised modern world has deadened the human body and spirit, and that only genuine physical and emotional intimacy can restore wholeness to a fractured society. First privately published in Florence in 1928, the novel was banned in the UK for obscenity until 1960, when Penguin Books' landmark trial victory transformed it into a cause célèbre for literary freedom. This edition, with an introduction by the distinguished cultural critic Richard Hoggart — whose testimony proved pivotal in the obscenity trial — offers an essential scholarly framing for one of the most debated and enduring works of 20th-century literature. Whether read as a romance, a social critique, or a manifesto for human liberation, it refuses to release its grip on the reader long after the final page.
Author: D.H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few novels in the English literary canon have ignited as much controversy — or as much passion — as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, a scorching portrayal of desire, class, and the search for authentic human connection in post-WWI England. The story chronicles Constance (Connie) Chatterley, a spirited young woman trapped in a sterile marriage to Sir Clifford Chatterley, a war-wounded aristocrat paralysed from the waist down, who finds herself drawn into a fierce and forbidden love affair with Oliver Mellors, the estate's gamekeeper — a union that shatters the rigid boundaries of the British class system. Lawrence writes with an unflinching, lyrical intensity, arguing that the industrialised modern world has deadened the human body and spirit, and that only genuine physical and emotional intimacy can restore wholeness to a fractured society. First privately published in Florence in 1928, the novel was banned in the UK for obscenity until 1960, when Penguin Books' landmark trial victory transformed it into a cause célèbre for literary freedom. This edition, with an introduction by the distinguished cultural critic Richard Hoggart — whose testimony proved pivotal in the obscenity trial — offers an essential scholarly framing for one of the most debated and enduring works of 20th-century literature. Whether read as a romance, a social critique, or a manifesto for human liberation, it refuses to release its grip on the reader long after the final page.