The Trial Of Lady Chatterley's Lover, 9781907970979
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Balls, reverence, and obscenity: Inside the trial that changed literature.

The Trial Of Lady Chatterley's Lover

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    80 pages

  • Release Date

    24 January 2017

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Summary

The Trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover: A Landmark Case

The prosecution then read that extraordinary page about the source of life. The court sat rapt… ‘The weight of a man’s balls” puritanical?’ The witness: ‘Yes, it is puritanical in its reverence.’ ‘Reverence for what?’ screamed the prosecutor. ‘The balls?’ ‘Indeed, yes,’ said the witness gently.

When Penguin released a new, unexpurgated edition of DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1960 they were ch…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781907970979
ISBN-10:1907970975
Author:Sybille Bedford
Publisher:Daunt Books
Imprint:Daunt Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:80
Release Date:24 January 2017
Weight:108g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm
About The Author

Sybille Bedford

Sybille Bedford (1911-2006) was born in Charlottenburg, Germany and grew up in Italy, France, and England. The account of her travels in Mexico, A Visit to Don Otavio, was her first published book in 1953, and she followed it with three novels, A Legacy (1956), A Favourite of the Gods (1963) and A Compass Error (1968). Her semi-autobiographical novel, Jigsaw, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989. Her memoir, Quicksands, was published in 2005.

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