In the Library
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence, 1928
- Form
- Form Novel
- Difficulty
- Difficulty Moderate
- Reading time
- Reading time 8.5 hours
- Chapters
- Chapters 19
- Length
- Length 118k words
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About the book
A young woman in tweeds walks down through a beech wood on a Derbyshire estate and finds the gamekeeper washing himself behind his cottage, naked to the waist in the cold spring afternoon. D. H. Lawrence printed this last novel privately in Florence in 1928, knowing no English publisher would touch it; the unexpurgated text would not be legally sold in Britain until Penguin won the 1960 obscenity trial. Constance Chatterley is married to Clifford, paralysed below the waist on a Flanders battlefield and now master of Wragby and its collieries. With Mellors she finds a vocabulary the upper classes have forgotten: tenderness, rage, and the Anglo-Saxon names for the body. Industrial England is the antagonist; the wood is the last green page.