Lady Chatterley's Lover ─ Complete and Unexpurgated 1928 Orioli Edition

Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is??one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth??century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty,??explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in??a sterile marriage and her growing love for the??robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most??controversial of Lawrence's books, Lady??Chatterly's Lover joyously affirms the??author's vision of individual regeneration through??sexual love. The book's power, complexity, and??psychological intricacy make this a completely??original work--a triumph of passion, an erotic??celebration of life.

David Herbert (D. H.) Lawrence, whose fiction has had a profound influence on twentieth-century literature, was born on September 11, 1885, in a mining village in Nottinghamshire, England. His father was an illiterate coal miner, his mother a genteel schoolteacher determined to lift her children out of the working class. His parents' unhappy marriage and his mother's strong emotional claims on her son later became the basis for Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (1913), one of the most important autobiographical novels of this century.

In 1915, his masterpiece, The Rainbow, which like it's companion novel Women In Love (1920) dealt frankly with sex, was suppressed as indecent a month after its publication. Aaron's Road (1922); Kangaroo (1923), set in Australia; and The Plumed Serpent (1926), set in Mexico, were all written during Lawrence's travels in search of political and emotional refuge and healthful climate. In 1928, already desperately ill, Lawrence wrote Lady Chatterly's Lover. Banned as pornographic, the unexpurgated edition was not allowed legal circulation in Britain until 1960. D. H. Lawrence called his life, marked by struggle, frustration, and despair "a savage enough pilgrimage." He died on March 2, 1930, at the age of forty-four, in Vence, France.