Lady Chatterley's lover
By D. H. Lawrence
Cover: The Forest of Coubron (1872), oil on canvas by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1875; CC0 from the National Gallery of Art)
Lady Chatterley's Lover is the final novel by the English author D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928, in Florence, Italy, and in 1929, in Paris, France. An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books, which won the case and quickly sold three million copies. The book was also banned for obscenity in the United States, Canada, Australia, India and Japan. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This edition omits one or more passages of explicit sexual description; each omission is marked in the text.
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