When Constance Reidβs new husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, returns from war paralyzed and in a wheelchair, she sees her future wither. As their marriage grows loveless, she mourns the desires fated to go unfulfilled. But a stirring fascination with Oliver Mellors, the estateβs coarse, taciturn game
Lady Chatterley's Lover
β Scribed by D. H. Lawrence
- Publisher
- Random House, Inc.;Barnes & Noble Classics
- Year
- 2007;2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 265 KB
- Edition
- Barnes & Noble Classics edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
Inspired by the long-standing affair between Frieda, Lawrenceβs German wife, and an Italian peasant who eventually became her third husband,Lady Chatterleyβs Loveris the story of Constance Chatterley, who, while trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocratic mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, has an affair with Mellors, the gamekeeper. Frank Kermode calls the book Lawrenceβs "great achievement" and AnaΓ―s Nin describes it as "artistically . . . his best novel." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes the transcript of the judge's decision in the famous 1959 obscenity trial that allowed the novel to be published in the United States. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Banned, burned, and the subject of a landmark obscenity trial, Lawrence's lyric and sensual last novel is now regarded as "our time's most significant romance." -- The New York Times. This classic tale of love and discovery pits the paralyzed and callous Clifford Chatterley against his indecisive wi
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Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928. Printed privately in Florence in 1928, it was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1960 (other than in an underground edition issued by Inky Stephensen's Mandrake Press in 1929). Lawrence considered calling this book Tenderne
SUMMARY: Inspired by the long-standing affair between Frieda, Lawrenceβs German wife, and an Italian peasant who eventually became her third husband,Lady Chatterleyβs Loveris the story of Constance Chatterley, who, while trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocratic mine owner whose war wounds h
*Lady Chatterley's Lover* was inspired by the long-standing affair between Frieda, Lawrence's aristocratic German wife, and an Italian peasant who eventually became her third husband; Lawrence's struggle with sexual impotence; and the circumstances of his and Frieda's courtship and the early years o