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Lady Chatterley's lover

Lady Chatterley's lover

by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930

BookID: 73144

Language:English

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 84.8 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Adultery -- FictionEngland -- FictionLove storiesMarried women -- Fiction

Description

"Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D. H. Lawrence is a novel first published privately in 1928. The story follows Constance Chatterley, an upper-class woman trapped in a passionless marriage to her paralyzed husband, who begins an affair with Mellors, the estate's working-class gamekeeper. Their relationship challenges rigid social boundaries and explores the essential connection between physical desire and emotional fulfillment. The novel's explicit content sparked worldwide obscenity trials and bans, becoming one of the most controversial works of the twentieth century. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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