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Lady Chatterley's Lover

Door D.H. Lawrence

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#360290-VE46
Titel
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Auteur
Lawrence, D.H.
Boektype
Pocket
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin Books
Jaar van uitgave
1980
ISBN10
0140014845
ISBN13
9780140014846
Taal
Nederlands
Beschrijving
Pocket book, small 8vo.
Samenvatting
With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D. H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition. The famous 'Lady Chatterley trial' heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery.
Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the conservativism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde and from feminists. The story of how the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds wh
... (Lees verder)en her husband returns from the war paralysed from the waist down, and of the tender love which then develops between her and her husband's gamekeeper, is a complex one open to a variety of conflicting interpretation.
Pagina's
316
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 6,00

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