Constance Chatterley is a young woman married to Clifford, a baronet paralyzed from the waist down in the First World War. They live at Wragby Hall in the English Midlands, where Clifford devotes himself to writing and to coal mining. Constance, lonely and physically starved, begins an affair with the estate's gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. D.H. Lawrence uses the love story to attack the cold industrial society of his day and to argue for a more honest, physical life. The novel was banned in Britain until a famous 1960 trial.
It is a good pick for readers interested in modernist fiction and the history of censorship. The sexual frankness shocked in its day, and the novel's critique of class and industry is just as central.
Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Empathetic Explorer. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 1928
- Language
- EN
