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D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover (Wordsworth Classics) - 9781840224887 - 9781840224887
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (Wordsworth Classics)

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Description for Lady Chatterley's Lover (Wordsworth Classics) Paperback. Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband's return from the trenches of the First World War, partially paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes the chance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her forever. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 202.

Notes and Introduction by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury.

With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition. The famous 'Lady Chatterley trial' heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery.

Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the ... Read more

This edition of the novel offers an occasion for a new generation of readers to discover what all the fuss was about; to appraise Lawrence's bitter indictment of modern industrial society, and to ask themselves what lessons there might be for the 21st century in his intense exploration of the complicated relations between love and sex.

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Product Details

Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Wordsworth Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Herts, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840224887
SKU
9781840224887
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