Lady Chatterley's Lover
introduction by john sutherland
$82.22
- Hardcover
408 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2024
Summary
A Forbidden Love: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Famously banned for indecency, Lawrence’s final novel is one of the most notorious and passionate love stories in literature.
Constance Reid, Lady Chatterley, is a young woman trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to an aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralyzed. After her husband demands that she provide him with an heir, she enters into a liaison with their gamekeeper, a working-class man named Oliver Mellor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781101908402 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1101908408 |
| Series: | Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series |
| Author: | D.H. Lawrence, John Sutherland |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library USA |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 516g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 133mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
D.H. Lawrence
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE (1885–1930), the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer, was born in Nottinghamshire, England. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, and the next year he published Sons and Lovers. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lady Chatterley’s Lover was published in 1928, but it was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.
JOHN SUTHERLAND is a British academic, newspaper columnist, and author. He is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has twice served as a judge for the Booker Prize and writes regularly for The Guardian.
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