Lady Chatterley's LoverSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING THE CROWN’S EMMA CORRIN AND UNBROKEN’S JACK O’CONNELL Introduction by Kathryn Harrison 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. Frank Kermode called the book D. H. Lawrence’s “great achievement,” Anaïs Nin described it as “his best novel,” and Archibald MacLeish hailed it as “one of the most important works of fiction of the century.” Along with an incisive Introduction by Kathryn Harrison, 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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... Clifford and Constance , to his home , Wragby hall , the family " seat . " His father had died , Clifford was now a baronet , Sir Clifford , and Constance was Lady Chatterley . They came to start housekeeping and married life in the ...
... Clifford and Constance , to his home , Wragby hall , the family " seat . " His father had died , Clifford was now a baronet , Sir Clifford , and Constance was Lady Chatterley . They came to start housekeeping and married life in the ...
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... Sir Geoffrey , Clifford's father , was intensely ridiculous , chopping down his trees , and weeding men out of his colliery to shove them into the war ; and himself being so safe and patriotic ; but also , spending more money on his ...
... Sir Geoffrey , Clifford's father , was intensely ridiculous , chopping down his trees , and weeding men out of his colliery to shove them into the war ; and himself being so safe and patriotic ; but also , spending more money on his ...
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... Clifford became heir . He was terrified even of this . His importance as son of Sir Geoffrey and child of Wragby was so ingrained in him , he could never escape it . And yet he knew that this too , in the eyes of the vast seething world ...
... Clifford became heir . He was terrified even of this . His importance as son of Sir Geoffrey and child of Wragby was so ingrained in him , he could never escape it . And yet he knew that this too , in the eyes of the vast seething world ...
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... Sir Geoffrey wanted Clifford to marry . Sir Geoffrey barely mentioned it : he spoke very little . But his silent , brooding insistence that it should be so was hard for Clifford to bear up against . But Emma said No ! She was ten years ...
... Sir Geoffrey wanted Clifford to marry . Sir Geoffrey barely mentioned it : he spoke very little . But his silent , brooding insistence that it should be so was hard for Clifford to bear up against . But Emma said No ! She was ten years ...
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... Clifford was almost morbidly sensitive about these stories . He wanted ... Sir Geoffrey for many years , and the dried - up , elderly , superlatively ... Clifford had insisted on a new cook , an experienced woman who had served him in his ...
... Clifford was almost morbidly sensitive about these stories . He wanted ... Sir Geoffrey for many years , and the dried - up , elderly , superlatively ... Clifford had insisted on a new cook , an experienced woman who had served him in his ...
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