Lady Chatterley's Lover

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'If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a natural and vital thing. They won't have it. You'll see, they'll hound that man down' - Lady Chatterley's Lover [p. 277].
And so for over thirty years they hounded Lawrence himself. Lady Chatter-ley's Lover was first published In 1928 but it was not until I960 that people could at last read and judge the full text of this famous work for themselves.
The story moves on two levels. Against Sir Clifford's sterile self-regard is set the growth of love between Connie and Mel-lors. As they make love, Connie slowly finds and becomes herself, while from the first, Mellors' social apartness and private tenderness mark him out as the Lawrence hero. The novel also portrays the barren industrialism of England between the wars. Lawrence saw clearly and hated, as only he could hate, the alienation inherent in the machine age.
'I would say, if I may speak... Tovább

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'If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a natural and vital thing. They won't have it. You'll see, they'll hound that man down' - Lady Chatterley's Lover [p. 277].
And so for over thirty years they hounded Lawrence himself. Lady Chatter-ley's Lover was first published In 1928 but it was not until I960 that people could at last read and judge the full text of this famous work for themselves.
The story moves on two levels. Against Sir Clifford's sterile self-regard is set the growth of love between Connie and Mel-lors. As they make love, Connie slowly finds and becomes herself, while from the first, Mellors' social apartness and private tenderness mark him out as the Lawrence hero. The novel also portrays the barren industrialism of England between the wars. Lawrence saw clearly and hated, as only he could hate, the alienation inherent in the machine age.
'I would say, if I may speak of antecedents, of great names, Bunyan on the one hand and Blake on the other. Lawrence too had this passionate opinion of the world and what it ought to be, but is not' - E. M. Forster.
'Young persons of either sex are the last out of whose hands anybody should think of keeping this book. The worst it could do to them would be to make them a little over-solemn' - The Times Literary Supplement
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