3.5
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence’s scandalous novel explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband’s estate—with an introduction by Kathryn Harrison.
The basis for the major motion picture starring The Crown’s Emma Corrin and Unbroken’s Jack O’Connell
Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence’s German wife and an Italian peasant, Lady Chatterley’s Lover follows the intense passions of Constance Chatterley. Trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocratic mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, Constance enters into a liaison with the gamekeeper Mellors.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, considered one of the most remarkable literary works of the twentieth century, was banned in England and the United States following its initial publication in 1928. This Modern Library edition includes the transcript of the judge’s decision in the famous 1959 obscenity trial that allowed Lady Chatterley’s Lover to be published in the United States.
The basis for the major motion picture starring The Crown’s Emma Corrin and Unbroken’s Jack O’Connell
Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence’s German wife and an Italian peasant, Lady Chatterley’s Lover follows the intense passions of Constance Chatterley. Trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocratic mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, Constance enters into a liaison with the gamekeeper Mellors.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, considered one of the most remarkable literary works of the twentieth century, was banned in England and the United States following its initial publication in 1928. This Modern Library edition includes the transcript of the judge’s decision in the famous 1959 obscenity trial that allowed Lady Chatterley’s Lover to be published in the United States.
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3.5
“I picked up this book without knowing much - it was a classic where there was an extramarital relationship. But this book was so much more than that. The way that D. H. Lawrence used the romance as a lantern to make a social critic so crisp (and sadly so current, guess it is one of the reasons it is a classic) something I wasn't expecting but it was my favourite part of the book.
Oliver may had started as a sexual escapade to Constance but it become a symbol of resistance to all she had, an alternative way of living.
I must say that their relationship felt ethereal to me, too delicate to survived, ao I was quite surprised by the ending. I felt that I had missed something in Oliver's last letter, or more that he felt like a different character. His voice and posture dramatically changed, and even though it made me happy it sounded out of place.”
“Leaving my notes full of spoilers! I wanted to like this book more but at the end it didn’t make for me.
- I really liked the opening paragraph! It sets a grand and tragic tone. However, maybe because how strong it was, I expected the book to be little bit more dramatic in terms of the scale of events, the amount of people evolved etc.
- I enjoyed Connie’s “journey” to liberation. She follows her principles, she shares her opinions freely in place and time when women didn’t have as much freedom to act as they please.
- I’m supporting Connie and her choices, but I could not make myself to like Mellors. By the end of the book, I thought he might had depression, but I still had hard time to sympathize with him, and that was potentially because of his attitude towards Connie (which was not the nicest in my humble opinion).
- I also found it hard to believe Mellor’s sudden change at the end of the book. It seemed to me that his attitude towards Connie was not extremely warm throughout the whole story, and then suddenly he accepts her and commits to wait for her 6 months to start building their life together. It probably was his pride and the class difference that hold him back. Also, it sounded like he needed a right person and also a veeeery patient person to bring him to believe he could have a relationship again. Still, the switch in him towards Connie seemed to be too sudden in my opinion.
- Lastly, I enjoyed the different perspectives on industrialization, capitalism, and Bolshevism, but I wouldn’t say they were groundbreaking. I assume at the time when the book was written, it would be much more interesting to read about it since there were current events mentioned in between the spicy scenes.”
About D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature, was born on September 11, 1885, in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to lift her children out of the working class. His parents’ unhappy marriage and his mother’s strong emotional claims on her son later became the basis for Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers (1913), one of the most important autobiographical novels of this century. In 1915, his masterpiece, The Rainbow, which like its companion novel Women in Love (1920) dealt frankly with sex, was suppressed as indecent a month after its publication. Aaron’s Road (1922); Kangaroo (1923), set in Australia; and The Plumed Serpent (1926), set in Mexico, were all written during Lawrence’s travels in search of political and emotional refuge and a healthful climate. In 1928, already desperately ill, Lawrence wrote Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Banned as pornographic, the unexpurgated edition was not allowed legal circulation in Britain until 1960. D. H. Lawrence called his life, marked by struggle, frustration, and despair, “a savage enough pilgrimage.” He died on March 2, 1930, at the age of forty-four, in Vence, France.
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