Constance Chatterley, married to a paralyzed aristocrat, falls in love with the gamekeeper Mellors, and Lawrence makes the sexual scenes explicit in ways that got the book banned for decades. But the novel is about more than sex: it is about vitality against mechanism, tenderness against abstraction, the body against industrial modernity. The 1960 obscenity trial became a landmark in publishing history. The prosecutor asked whether it was a book you would want your wife or servants to read. The jury said yes.