Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D H Lawrence

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D.H. Lawrence wrote Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1920 amidst much controversy over its content, mainly an upper class woman’s affair with her gardener in order to give her war-paralysed husband an heir. This type of love and passion in posh society was not looked upon favourably in the 1920s. Neither was Lawrence’s choice of four-letter words, resulting in the privately published book being censored in both the UK and US.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work. There is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

“We agreed the controversy over this book was its appeal, but obviously reading this book for the first time nearly 90 years after it was written, when such stories are now commonplace, meant the shock factor as we imagined was not present. However, we appreciate how this content was risqué for its time, and that its mere existence paved the way for writers that followed Lawrence.

“But it was a great romance, filled with angst and passion; a story we did all enjoy.”

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Published 1928
Tipografia Giuntina
352 pages