Lady Chatterley's Lover: NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM - Softcover

Lawrence, D H

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099541653 ISBN 13: 9780099541653

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2011

Synopsis

The perfect gift for Valentine’s Day

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BLAKE MORRISON

Clifford Chatterley returns from the First World War as an invalid. Constance nurses him and tries to be the dutiful wife. However, childless and listless she feels oppressed by their marriage and their isolated life. Partly encouraged by Clifford to seek a lover, she embarks on a passionate affair with the gamekeeper, Mellors. Through their liaison Lawrence explores the complications of sex, love and class.

Written in 1928 and subsequently banned, Lady Chatterley's Lover is one of the most subversive novels in English Literature.

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Review:

Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 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 gamekeeper who works for the estate owned by her 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, Lawrence's masterful and lyrical writing, and a story that takes us bodily into the world of its characters.

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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099541653
• ISBN 13: 9780099541653
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384