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Frank Novel about Sex, Class, Nature, and Industrial Decay

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

May 19, 2025 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

Give me the body. I believe the life of the body is a greater reality than the life of the mind: when the body is really wakened to life. D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, published in 1928, is an explicit account of married Lady Connie Chatterley and her groundskeeper lover, Oliver Mellors. Mellors’s name is almost never used in the book; he is simply the groundskeeper, even in Connie’s mind. Connie is married to Clifford Chatterley, who was paralyzed below the waist in World War […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: D.H. Lawrence

esmemoria's CBR17 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: D.H. Lawrence ·
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D.H. Lawrence and Freud got together on this, I swear.

December 26, 2016 by bonnie Leave a Comment

I remember my sister reading this book in high school and her English teacher being nervous because of the sexual content. I found this book on sale at my university bookstore and then just never read it for years. And now, with reading-from-the-shelves project underway, I’ve finally been able to check it off my list. This book was kind of a head-scratcher for me, though. Let’s dig in.

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bonnie's CBR8 Review No:145 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: bonnie, D.H. Lawrence ·
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