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by D.H. Lawrence (Author) "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically ..." (more)
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Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Lawrence's classic tale of love and discovery comes alive in this audio presentation. Lady Chatterley is trapped in an unhappy marriage with a husband who is paralyzed physically and emotionally. Jill Daly reads in a quiet tone which ebbs and flows with the excitement of the characters. The indecisiveness of Lady Chatterley, the callousness of her husband, the persuasiveness of her lover--all are portrayed in a quiet, even voice until the climactic end. The abridgment is an excellent taste of D.H. Lawrence. Some language and imagery are explicit. M.B.K. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Worthy Philosophical Novel, Jun 5 2004
By -_Tim_- (The Western Hemisphere) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lady Chatterley's Lover (Paperback)
Lady Chatterly's Lover is a philosophical novel that asks questions about values and what makes a good life. In it, D. H. Lawrence considers the intellectual life and finds it arid and unreal. (Here, there is an extended, unflattering discussion of the self-promotion that a successful writer must engage in.) He then considers the effect of technology on modern life and finds that it has diminished our human qualities. Finally, he advocates a return to a simpler life where people will meet their deeper needs rather than seeking the superficial things that money can buy. The author thinks that sex has to play a pretty central role in a complete life, and he's probably right about that, but he has some very specific ideas about sex that sound odd to us now.

The author also looks deeply into the dynamics of relationships between men and women and explores what we are like, why we have trouble understanding one another, and how men and women can complement one another.

Finally, there is a fair amount of racy language and action that, of course, earned this book its notoriety.

I enjoyed this book a great deal and I think that the author's critique of modern ethics deserves some attention. It is a mistake to dismiss this book because of its overtly sexual themes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars most people misunderstand this book, Dec 12 2003
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This review is from: Lady Chatterley's Lover (Paperback)
Why does everybody think this book is about sex and adultry? Probably because it was banned, being a bit ahead of its time. In reality, this book is a lovely, wonderful metaphor for the arrival of the era of mechanization and the industrial revolution, as set against the "England of the Greenwood" (E. M. Forster). Lawrence appears to have had a fascination for this theme, as it occurs in some of his other novels as well. Far from being shunned as inappropriate for young adult readers, Lady Chatterly's Lover ought to be taught, at least at the college level, because it's a marvelous novel and should be appreciated as much, much more than a simple "dirty book."
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4.0 out of 5 stars An emotionally profound book full of insight................, Aug 25 2003
By girldiver "Enjoy!" (tangled up in blue.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lady Chatterley's Lover (Paperback)
At the near mention of this book to a mass of people brings forth sexual notions of what people associate this work of literature and most are wrong. I found this book to be filled with intense emotional loneliness and sadness not the sexual adventure most associat with this final work of DH Lawrence.

A story of a woman(Lady Chatterly, Connie) who is married to very self involved man that is made more self involved upon his war injuries and her needs for emotional and physical intimacy. With her deep loneliness Connie begins an affair with Mellors the GameKeeper on her husbands estate and struggles with the internal morality of loving someone who is of a lesser class and her real love of him. With Mellors she adores him and needs him away from him she questions herself and feels the shame of her actions.

One of the themes I loved about the book was choice. The ability to make ones own choice and live with the consequences. Through out the book Connie makes choices she is willing to live with and Mellor never forces his will on her. She is the Mistress of her Choices and no one else. I thought it interesting that Lawrence would make her so strong willed on one hand and pschologically lonely on the other.

This book is a psychological journey of one woman and the man she loves more than it is a sexual escapade. I can see how this book was shocking in the late twenties but seems very tame today.

I found this book very sad and wouldn't recommend it to someone on prozac or other anti depressant drugs. I also found the writing very eloquent and filled with lots of quiet observations of relationships between men and women that are true today and in the future. DH Lawrence you could say was ahead of his time or you could say came at just the right time either way you should read his work.

This particular book had a introduction and forward written by others that was very insightful. Also, an afterword written by DH Lawrence himself that again extremely insightful. It is hard to beleive he was sick through out the writing and publication of this book that is wonderfully written. Perhaps that is why it is so sad. He kind of says live your life to the fullest in love and sex for life is too short.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Difficult
Difficult to concentrate on, due to headaches and the fact that the narrative wasn't lively enough. Next... (C)
Published on Sep 25 2004 by Ez

3.0 out of 5 stars porn classic
Published in 1928, Lady Chatterley's Lover was D. H. Lawrence's last novel--it was also his most daring and blatantly erotic work. Read more
Published on Mar 21 2004 by I ain't no porn writer

2.0 out of 5 stars Tedious
His style in Lady Chatterley's Lover is amateuristic, at best. Admittedly, there are parts were the writing takes off and becomes something sublime. Read more
Published on Oct 22 2003 by rousaswgnr

1.0 out of 5 stars greatest pseudo-literature
d.h. lawrence sure is good at inflating banalities, the whole book is a mere concatenation of pseudo-intellectual, relentlessly boring blabber, some plot interspersed. Read more
Published on Sep 12 2003 by Iris_Neva

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensual and raw, subtle and forthright, a true classic
D.H. Lawrence touched raw nerves when this was published because it vividly addressed and described what the upper classes have been doing for ages: Having extra-marital affairs... Read more
Published on May 27 2003 by Donna Di Giacomo

5.0 out of 5 stars A hint of great books to come
D.H. Lawrence's most contraversial and classic book, an essential for anyone remotely interested in D.H. Lawrence and modern literature. Read more
Published on May 24 2003 by mitchel knight

3.0 out of 5 stars --First published in the 1920's--
The beauty of belonging to a reading group is that everyone is exposed to books that they might not normally read. Read more
Published on April 28 2003 by Judith Miller

5.0 out of 5 stars Comment on Industrialisation
Connie Chatterley's life is droll and boring with her handicapped husband in the industrial wasteland of post-WWI England. Read more
Published on April 18 2003 by H. Gale

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect love story
I've noticed that the negative reviews of the novel are focused on the sexual content instead of the love story that leads to it. Read more
Published on Jan 20 2003 by TERRY A MCCOLLUM

5.0 out of 5 stars The best erotic romance I've ever read!
This novel's explicit sexual descriptions caused a great deal of controversy when it was first published in 1928. Read more
Published on Dec 31 2002 by CoffeeGurl

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