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No cover — David Herbert Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's lover (1973)

English language

Published Dec. 10, 1973

ISBN:: 978-0-14-001484-6

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Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by English author D. H. Lawrence that was first published privately in 1928 in Italy and in 1929 in France. An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books, which won the case and quickly sold three million copies. The book was also banned for obscenity in the United States, Canada, Australia, India and Japan. The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex and its use of then-unprintable four-letter words. The story is said to have originated from certain events in Lawrence's own unhappy domestic life, and he took inspiration for the settings of the book from Nottinghamshire, where he grew up. According to some critics, …

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by English author D. H. Lawrence that was first published privately in 1928 in Italy and in 1929 in France. An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books, which won the case and quickly sold three million copies. The book was also banned for obscenity in the United States, Canada, Australia, India and Japan. The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex and its use of then-unprintable four-letter words. The story is said to have originated from certain events in Lawrence's own unhappy domestic life, and he took inspiration for the settings of the book from Nottinghamshire, where he grew up. According to some critics, the fling of Lady Ottoline Morrell with "Tiger", a young stonemason who came to carve plinths for her garden statues, also influenced the story. Lawrence, who had once considered calling the novel John Thomas and Lady Jane in reference to the male and the female sex organs, made significant alterations to the text and story in the process of its composition.Lawrence allegedly read the manuscript of Maurice by E. M. Forster, which was published posthumously in 1971. That novel, although it is about a homosexual couple, also involves a gamekeeper becoming the lover of a member of the upper classes and influenced Lady Chatterley's Lover.

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kowry@kirja.casa reviewed Lady Chatterley's Lover by David Herbert Lawrence

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En olisi tätä aloittanut, tai varmaan jaksanut loppuun lukea ilman lukupiirin luomaa painetta. En tiennyt kirjasta etukäteen kauheasti muuta kuin maineen kohua herättäneenä sensaatioromanssina, mutta tässähän oli aika paljon kaikkea muutakin taustalla, aina hiilikaivoksissa raatavan työläisluokan kurjan aseman kuvauksesta ensimmäisen maailmansodan aiheuttamaan traumaan ja uuden sodan uhkaan.

Mutta siis aika verkkainen kirja tämä oli. Hahmot vetelivät välillä jaarittelevia keskusteluja ja monologeja, jotka eivät vaikuttaneet kovinkaan luontevilta. Seksikuvaukset eivät toki olleet nyt luettuna kovinkaan riettaan oloisia, ja kesti aika pitkään että kunnon äksöniin edes päästiin, mutta kirjassa oli nätisti sanottuna vanhentuneen oloinen käsitys romantiikasta ja sukupuolisesta kanssakäymisestä.