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Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1938)

by D.H. Lawrence Return to list Adopt this book

(New Valentine's title) This novel portraying the passionate affair between a married upper class woman and a working class man created quite a stir with its explicit prose and use of then un-printable words. First published privately in Florence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, in its unexpurgated version, could not be openly printed in the United Kingdom until 1960.

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