The First Lady Chatterley
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Jacket in mylar sleeve.
Before the world knew of Lady Chatterley's Lover, there was its raw, unguarded ancestor — The First Lady Chatterley, the original first draft of D. H. Lawrence's most controversial masterpiece, written in 1926 and published posthumously. This earliest version chronicles the passionate and forbidden relationship between Constance Chatterley, trapped in a sterile, class-bound marriage to the paralysed Sir Clifford, and Parkin, the earthy gamekeeper who awakens in her a profound hunger for life, tenderness, and human connection. Set against the bleak industrial landscape of the English Midlands, the novel presents a rawer, more socially charged portrait of desire and class struggle than its later, more refined iterations. Lawrence's prose in this first draft carries an urgency and directness that is at once intimate and politically charged, laying bare his central argument: that the industrial age has crippled not only the bodies of men like Clifford, but the very soul of English society. Stripped of the later versions' more explicit content, this incarnation is in many ways the most emotionally transparent, revealing Lawrence's instincts as a writer before revision tempered his first impulses. Scholars and admirers of Lawrence will find in these pages a unique window into his creative process — and readers new to his work will discover why his vision of human passion and social liberation remains as urgent and unsettling as ever.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Format: Hardback
Published: 1944, Dial Press: New York / Peter Huston: Sydney
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Jacket in mylar sleeve.
Before the world knew of Lady Chatterley's Lover, there was its raw, unguarded ancestor — The First Lady Chatterley, the original first draft of D. H. Lawrence's most controversial masterpiece, written in 1926 and published posthumously. This earliest version chronicles the passionate and forbidden relationship between Constance Chatterley, trapped in a sterile, class-bound marriage to the paralysed Sir Clifford, and Parkin, the earthy gamekeeper who awakens in her a profound hunger for life, tenderness, and human connection. Set against the bleak industrial landscape of the English Midlands, the novel presents a rawer, more socially charged portrait of desire and class struggle than its later, more refined iterations. Lawrence's prose in this first draft carries an urgency and directness that is at once intimate and politically charged, laying bare his central argument: that the industrial age has crippled not only the bodies of men like Clifford, but the very soul of English society. Stripped of the later versions' more explicit content, this incarnation is in many ways the most emotionally transparent, revealing Lawrence's instincts as a writer before revision tempered his first impulses. Scholars and admirers of Lawrence will find in these pages a unique window into his creative process — and readers new to his work will discover why his vision of human passion and social liberation remains as urgent and unsettling as ever.