Lady Chatterley's Lover - Softcover

Lawrence, D. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141389966 ISBN 13: 9780141389967

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

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Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled existence.

About this title

Product Description:

One of the most famous, exquisite, and through provoking books written by D.H. Lawrence portraying adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchair bound husband. The novel praised for its sharp psychological portrait of British social order and explicit descriptions of sex was banned in several countries including Lawrence's homeland England.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141389966
• ISBN 13: 9780141389967
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Squires Michael, Poplawski Paul