Lady Chatterley's Lover, Including 'a Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover' (Twentieth-Century Classics) - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140187863 ISBN 13: 9780140187861

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheel chaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters.

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Review:

"No one ever wrote better about the power struggles of sex and love" (Doris Lessing)

"A masterpiece" (Guardian)

"Does for D H Lawrence what Jack the Ripper did for Gladstone bags and stovepipe hats" (Neil Gaiman)

"He was a big influence on me - I loved the seriousness and intensity he brought to his studies of human relationships, and the boldness with which he pushed the boundaries of what could be said and thought and written about in the novel" (Andrew Davies)

Book Description:

The Cambridge edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover is the first ever to restore to Lawrence's most famous novel the words that he wrote. Removing corruptions and errors and including hundreds of new words, phrases and sentences - this is the only text that can be read or quoted with confidence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140187863
• ISBN 13: 9780140187861
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Squires Michael