Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" is D.H. L
awrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. This "Penguin C
lassics" edition is edited with notes by Michael Squires and an introduction by
Doris Lessing.
Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriag
e to the Sir Clifford. Paralysed in the First World War, Sir Clifford is unable
to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, and encourages her instead to have
a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to Oli
ver Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, with whom she embarks on a passionate aff
air that brings new life to her stifled existence.
