Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence - Classics & Literary Fiction - Paperback

Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781785992322. Publisher: Arcturus. Overview. Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's most famous and controversial novel, a book that scandalised readers on first publication and won a landmark battle against literary censorship. This Arcturus paperback edition brings Lawrence's frank, lyrical exploration of desire, class and connection to a new generation of readers in an affordable format. Brand new and ready to dispatch, it's an essential addition to any classic fiction shelf and a rewarding read for anyone curious about one of the twentieth century's defining literary flashpoints.. About the Book. First written and privately published in Florence in 1928, Lady Chatterley's Lover tells the story of Constance Chatterley, whose husband Clifford has returned from the First World War paralysed and increasingly withdrawn into intellectual detachment. Isolated and unfulfilled, Connie begins a passionate affair with Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on the Chatterley estate, and finds in their relationship a physical and emotional honesty entirely absent from her marriage. Lawrence uses the novel to explore the gulf between mind and body, aristocracy and working class, industrial modernity and the natural world, all filtered through frank, explicit language that was unprecedented for its time. The book's four-letter words and candid descriptions of sex meant it could not be published in an unexpurgated form in Britain for over thirty years. It was only after Penguin Books successfully defended the novel against prosecution under the Obscene Publications Act in 1960 that the full text was made available to the general public, a trial that became a defining moment in the history of free expression and literary publishing. Today, the novel is recognised not for its notoriety alone but as a serious meditation on intimacy, vitality and living authentically. This edition presents Lawrence's original text complete and unabridged.