Lady Chatterley's Lover - by D H Lawrence (Paperback)

About the Book

D. H. Lawrence's classic and controversial novel about one of the most provocative love affairs in literature.

Book Synopsis

Connie's unhappy marriage to Clifford Chatterley is scarred by mutual frustration and alienation. Her solitary existence is contained within the stifling parameters of Wragby, the Chatterley ancestral home. Connie is then presented with a chance to seize happiness and freedom when she finds herself in a consuming love affair with the estate's gamekeeper, Mellors, and discovers a world of sexual opportunity and pleasure she'd thought was lost to her.

The explosive passion of Connie and Mellors' relationship - and the searing candor with which it is described - marked a watershed in twentieth-century fiction, garnering Lady Chatterley's Lover a wide and enduring readership and lasting notoriety.

The text is taken from the privately published Author's Unabridged Popular Edition of 1930, the last to be supervised by D. H. Lawrence in his lifetime.

About the Author

David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 in Eastwood, a small mining village in Nottinghamshire, in the English Midlands. Despite ill health as a child and a comparatively disadvantageous position in society, he became a teacher in 1908, and took up a post at a school in Croydon, London. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1910, and from then until his death he wrote feverishly, producing poetry, essays, plays, travel books, short stories, and eleven more novels, including The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Lawrence travelled widely, settling for periods in Italy, New Mexico and Mexico. He married Frieda Weekley in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in 1930.