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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING THE CROWN’S EMMA CORRIN AND UNBROKEN’S JACK O’CONNELL Introduction by Kathryn Harrison Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence’s German wife and an Italian peasant, Lady Chatterley’s Lover follows the intense passions of Constance Chatterley. Trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocratic mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, Constance enters into a liaison with the gamekeeper Mellors. Frank Kermode called the book D. H. Lawrence’s “great achievement,” Anaïs Nin described it as “his best novel,” and Archibald MacLeish hailed it as “one of the most important works of fiction of the century.” Along with an incisive Introduction by Kathryn Harrison, this Modern Library edition includes the transcript of the judge’s decision in the famous 1959 obscenity trial that allowed Lady Chatterley’s Lover to be published in the United States.
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This book reminds me of a song I love (‘Chaleur Humaine' by Christine and the Queens) and also of William Blake's poetry. It's all about human connection and how chastity or the coldness brought about by industrial capitalism can weaken it like a disease. Also makes me think that the modern disconnectedness we blame on the internet/smartphones is actually an atrophy stemming back to the 19th and 20th centuries when everything became mechanised or “dead” like D. H. Lawrence puts it :(
But it ends hopefully! I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I was going to, and it's still very relevant. Lots of competing worldviews expressed through different characters. Would definitely recommend!