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An account of Constance Chatterley's love for Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, and the sense of completeness that they find in each other.Tags
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Riveting novel that illustrates how England was culturally flattened at the end of WWI. In terms of class, the destructiveness of war initiated a destruction of the gradation of the population. A proletarian uniformity is heralded by this undoing.
The haves and the have nots lose even the paternalistic bonds that once held them. Money, and its possession, become the sole reason for being.
The mechanical world drives mankind into a parallel mechanical response to life and nature.
Into this world, Connie Chatterley and Oliver Parkin come hard up against the near insuperable difficulties of a relationship that is initially sexual but which turns deeper. The way forward looks dire but Lawrence at least offers a possibility of a fulfilled love show more at the story's end.
This is a version of "Lady Chatterley's Lover". It is a classic and it is compelling reading. I haven't read either of the other two versions, so I can't compare them. show less
The haves and the have nots lose even the paternalistic bonds that once held them. Money, and its possession, become the sole reason for being.
The mechanical world drives mankind into a parallel mechanical response to life and nature.
Into this world, Connie Chatterley and Oliver Parkin come hard up against the near insuperable difficulties of a relationship that is initially sexual but which turns deeper. The way forward looks dire but Lawrence at least offers a possibility of a fulfilled love show more at the story's end.
This is a version of "Lady Chatterley's Lover". It is a classic and it is compelling reading. I haven't read either of the other two versions, so I can't compare them. show less
A great book, classical but modern in its ctrics of class, money and consumerism.
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D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885. His father was a coal miner and Lawrence grew up in a mining town in England. He always hated the mines, however, and frequently used them in his writing to represent both darkness and industrialism, which he despised because he felt it was scarring the English countryside. Lawrence show more attended high school and college in Nottingham and, after graduation, became a school teacher in Croyden in 1908. Although his first two novels had been unsuccessful, he turned to writing full time when a serious illness forced him to stop teaching. Lawrence spent much of his adult life abroad in Europe, particularly Italy, where he wrote some of his most significant and most controversial novels, including Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterly's Lover. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, who had left her first husband and her children to live with him, spent several years touring Europe and also lived in New Mexico for a time. Lawrence had been a frail child, and he suffered much of his life from tuberculosis. Eventually, he retired to a sanitorium in Nice, France. He died in France in 1930, at age 44. In his relatively short life, he produced more than 50 volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel journals, and letters, in addition to the novels for which he is best known. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- John Thomas and Lady Jane
- Alternate titles
- The Second Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Original publication date
- 1927: Written in English; 1954: First published in an Italian translation; 1972: First published in English
- Related movies
- Lady Chatterley (2006 | IMDb); Lady Chatterley (1993 | IMDb)
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- 5 — Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Italian
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- 16
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