num_pages: 362
description: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING THE CROWN ’S EMMA CORRIN AND UNBROKEN ’S JACK O’CONNELLIntroduction by Kathryn Harrison Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence’s German wife and an Italian peasant, Lady Chatterley’s Lover follows the intense passions of Constance Chatterley. Trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocratic mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, Constance enters into a liaison with the gamekeeper Mellors. Frank Kermode called the book D. H. Lawrence’s “great achievement,” Anaïs Nin described it as “his best novel,” and Archibald MacLeish hailed it as “one of the most important works of fiction of the century.” Along with an incisive Introduction by Kathryn Harrison, this Modern Library edition includes the transcript of the judge’s decision in the famous 1959 obscenity trial that allowed Lady Chatterley’s Lover to be published in the United States.
language: English
title: Lady Chatterley's Lover
titlecomplete: Lady Chatterley's Lover
characters: Clifford Chatterley, Constance Chatterley, Mrs. Bolton, Oliver Mellors
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, British Literature, Banned Books, Erotica, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 121874
places: United Kingdom, England, Lincolnshire, England
publisher: Modern Library