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Lady Chatterley's Lover: Introduction by John Sutherland (Everyman's Library
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Lady Chatterley's Lover: Introduction by John Sutherland (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) Hardcover - 2024

by Lawrence, D. H

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D.H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover holds the distinguished title of being one the most banned books in history. Infamous for its explicit descriptions of sex and other vulgarities, it was only published openly in the United Kingdom in 1960. The book focused on the illicit affair between an upper-class woman and her lower-class gamekeeper, and it was received with outrage and intrigue, resulting in numerous abridged versions being published throughout the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Because the first edition was so quickly banned from public consumption, there are many abridged and censored versions available, though few are as valuable as the original.

The first printings were bound with brown boards with an insignia of a phoenix gracing its front cover. The phoenix has remained a potent symbol for the book, in large part because of the book's victory in the infamous British Obscenity Trial in 1960.

D.H. Lawrence was a well-known English author who wrote many novels, short stories, and books of poetry. Not just an author, Lawrence was also a well-respected literary critic who wrote several essays regarding other famous writers, including Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman.

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D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE (1885-1930), the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer, was born in Nottinghamshire, England.His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, and the next year he published Sons and Lovers. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lady Chatterley's Lover was published in 1928, but it was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.

JOHN SUTHERLAND is a British academic, newspaper columnist, and author. He is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has twice served as a judge for the Booker Prize and writes regularly for The Guardian.