Goodreads: 3.5/5
From Sarah: This book is famous for causing QUITE the scandal back in the day. Nowadays, it’s pretty tame for those of us who have read A Court of Silver Flames (He sort of gives her a motor boat in Chapter 12), but in 1960, the UK Crown considered it shocking enough to charge Penguin Books with a violation of the Obscenties Publications Act - which ultimately ended in a not guilty verdict. The people wanted to read about orgasms and Connie Chatterley’s forbidden affair with hot gamekeeper Oliver Mellors! This is literary fiction - but I didn’t find it difficult to get into.
Goodreads: 3.5/5
Lady Chatterley’s Lover explores the intense affair between the sexually frustrated Connie - whose husband, Clifford, is paralysed from the waist down - and Oliver Mellors, the family gamekeeper.
First published in 1928, the novel challenged the social and sexual taboos of its time and was immediately banned as obscene. Lawrence’s last and most famous work of fiction, it was eventually published in full in 1960 to mark the thritieth anniversary of the writer’s death.
Goodreads: 3.5/5
From Sarah: This book is famous for causing QUITE the scandal back in the day. Nowadays, it’s pretty tame for those of us who have read A Court of Silver Flames (He sort of gives her a motor boat in Chapter 12), but in 1960, the UK Crown considered it shocking enough to charge Penguin Books with a violation of the Obscenties Publications Act - which ultimately ended in a not guilty verdict. The people wanted to read about orgasms and Connie Chatterley’s forbidden affair with hot gamekeeper Oliver Mellors! This is literary fiction - but I didn’t find it difficult to get into.
Goodreads: 3.5/5
Lady Chatterley’s Lover explores the intense affair between the sexually frustrated Connie - whose husband, Clifford, is paralysed from the waist down - and Oliver Mellors, the family gamekeeper.
First published in 1928, the novel challenged the social and sexual taboos of its time and was immediately banned as obscene. Lawrence’s last and most famous work of fiction, it was eventually published in full in 1960 to mark the thritieth anniversary of the writer’s death.
ISBN: 9781788280501
