Lady Chatterley's Lover
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few novels in literary history have ignited as much controversy — or as much passion — as D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, a searing portrait of desire, class, and the hunger for authentic human connection in post-WWI England. The story chronicles Constance Chatterley, a woman trapped in a sterile, emotionally hollow marriage to the paralysed aristocrat Sir Clifford, who finds herself drawn into a raw and tender affair with Mellors, the estate's gamekeeper — a man of working-class origins whose vitality stands in stark contrast to the cold intellectualism of her husband's world. Lawrence's final novel is a radical act of literary courage, dismantling the rigid class structures and sexual hypocrisies of the English upper class with unflinching prose that is by turns lyrical and provocative. The 1960 Penguin Books edition — complete and unexpurgated, with an introduction by cultural critic Richard Hoggart — marked a watershed moment in publishing history, following the landmark obscenity trial that cemented the novel's place as a cornerstone of 20th-century literature. What does it truly mean to be alive in a world that prizes status over feeling? Lawrence insists the answer lies somewhere between the body and the soul.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Format: Paperback
Published: 1960, Penguin Books
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few novels in literary history have ignited as much controversy — or as much passion — as D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, a searing portrait of desire, class, and the hunger for authentic human connection in post-WWI England. The story chronicles Constance Chatterley, a woman trapped in a sterile, emotionally hollow marriage to the paralysed aristocrat Sir Clifford, who finds herself drawn into a raw and tender affair with Mellors, the estate's gamekeeper — a man of working-class origins whose vitality stands in stark contrast to the cold intellectualism of her husband's world. Lawrence's final novel is a radical act of literary courage, dismantling the rigid class structures and sexual hypocrisies of the English upper class with unflinching prose that is by turns lyrical and provocative. The 1960 Penguin Books edition — complete and unexpurgated, with an introduction by cultural critic Richard Hoggart — marked a watershed moment in publishing history, following the landmark obscenity trial that cemented the novel's place as a cornerstone of 20th-century literature. What does it truly mean to be alive in a world that prizes status over feeling? Lawrence insists the answer lies somewhere between the body and the soul.