About this title: D. H. Lawrence's most controversial novel was published in Florence in 1928 by one of his friends, and in Paris the next year. Because of its overt sexuality and liberal use of four-letter words, LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER was declared obscene and actually went to trial; the complete text did not appear in England until 1960. The novel tells the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nelson Doubleday, Inc, New York
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Reading Copy. No Jacket Binding is separating between front endpaper and title page. Pages are intact and clean and there is some shelf wear to edges and corners. "The text is the third manuscript version published in Florence in 1928 by Orioli" read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1973
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The book is very solid with lightly browned pages. The cover is aging with moderate shelf & edge wear. The spine has a few creases. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: International Collector's Library
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780517385876ISBN:0517385872
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 305 p. Different edition, hardcover from International Collector's Library (Doubleday). No date given. Decent looking book, has ribbon bookmark. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Good+ to very good condition, pages are clean and tight, no spinewear, but has some shelvewear and edgewear, a couple of creases on the cover and one on the back keeps this book from being VG. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1962
ISBN-13:9780451524980ISBN:0451524985
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has very minor wear, pages are unmarked. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This book was a great look at the 1920's, the struggle between classes and the impact the further development of the coal mining industry had in England at the time. We get to see our protagonist fight an inner battle against form and custome to become her self and find happiness and fullfillment.
I admire the way Mr. Lawrence took on society at the time, he was a revolutionary man in the way he offered both social critique and his view of sex in a time where the written world was hardly an honest reflection of either.
I loved the ending, the way Mr. Lawrence finds the place for his characters in life without romanticizing their situation or finding an easy way out. It was as realistic as a novel can get, by the end you know the choices made were not easy, and to live with said choices won't be either, but those choices are what happiness means for them and that is more important than what should be."
"Far sexier than I imagined! (and for me to be surprised is a big deal... I read lots of dirty stories)
I didn't find the love story too.... loving, but I suppose that was the point- their love was based on a foundation of amazing sex.
I found his final letter hilarious and endearing (and private- I felt like a voyeur for most of this book)as he wrote to Connie as though his... 'down there', was speaking to her 'down there'.
"If you can get past the first 100 or so pages, it really gets more exciting...with the relationship between Mellors and Connie. I loved the conversations and the wit in conversations with the characters. DH Lawrence is such a good writer. There is so much substance, that when you go to some other modern day fictions, it is no comparison. He allows you to really feel the intensity of the moment. Yes, there are some drawn out conversations at times, but overall, he takes you back into the moment in seeing both the physical, emotional and mental environment. The idea of body versus mind is a major theme, given Clifford's condition. I believe though, that even if Clifford had all his movement...Lady Chatterley would have still drifted. He did not offer any emotional connection, and they probably married out of boredom. I feel the emotional and physical completeness witnessed in Mellors and Connie, symbolizes the triumph of repression, a life without ceremony, a life without class borders, class walls, and utlimately, a life of spiritual intuition. I was dissapointed though at the end...as we are left with the unknown...I do not want to spoil the ending...but I guess many stories end that way, leaving you only a hint of the next step. Well, maybe I am a bit naive, not seeing Connie and Mellors as a done deal. Yet, I was happy that they moved on, hopefully to a life of more genuine love."
"I suppose the 3 stars for "I Liked It" isn't quite the same as a 5-star review for being a piece of classic literature, yet the I-like-it-this-much is the only scale offered here on Goodreads. So there you go, only four stars because I personally didn't find it to be a life changing book, but still rather interesting.
Lady Chatterley's Lover is a well-known classic for various reasons which have been discussed at length by many other people so I'll skip that and jump right into my opinion. I enjoyed Mellors, (the gamekeeper and title character) except for his lapses into "Broad" vernacular which were rather difficult to understand. (I've never really liked phonetic dialog in literature. Slows me down.) Connie was a hoot - the typical Victorian Lady, sheltered and snobbish, but she managed to become a heroine despite her naiveté, or at least, a bit more respected in my eyes. (I've a soft spot for rebels with a good heart.)
Of course the real charm of Lady Chatterley's Lover was the prose rather than the story; Lawrence was flowery and insightful and absolutely outrageous for the time. Although the sexual scenes were tame by today's standards, they were charged with emotion and did not seem pornographic so much as exploration of the senses. I guess that was my overall perception of Connie, innocent and selfish in her pursuit of pleasure and love - which eventually became one in the same. She was a lot like a heady teenager really.
Although I generally enjoyed the prose, I did get lost in the long passages of inner monolog by either Clifford or the housekeeper. They just didn't hit the right note of interest for me. Granted, the troubles of that era mostly went over my head - specifically the history of coal mining and the collieries. The theme Lawrence pushed hardest was impossible to miss - respect of Nature and the physical body as much as the philosophical mind, for without one the other will surely rot and waste away. Agreed!"
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