Book Synopsis: Lady Chatterley's Lover it is a story that may be viewed in many ways. On the surface it tells of a beloved affair between Constance Chatterley and a viral gamekeeper who work for her impotent husband. From this point of view, the novel and is "the authentic descendent of Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina. And instead of leading his heroine to her doom, Lawrence shows for the way toward renewed and enriched life" (The New York Times Book Review).
The book may also be considered a story symbolizing the blight of industrial civilization and the basic superiority of natural impulses to the sophisticated immoralities of an inbred society.
Whatever meanings that book may have to any given reader, it has been widely and internationally hailed as a literary masterpiece. It has also been widely attacked as "obscene" and Lady Chatterley's Lover has suffered censorship to such a degree that it has been available to the English and reading public almost exclusively in expurgated versions.
The complete and unexpurgated version was privately printed by the author in Italy in a numbered edition of 1000 copies in 1928. This novel has recently been the subject of an important case concerning censorship and the freedom to read.
The opinion handed down on July 21, 1959, by a Federal Judge Frederick van pelt Brian is offered here, complete, as an appendix. It states with exceptional clarity some extremely important issues and is likely to become a major and precedent- setting decision in defining the rights of the authors and readers. The text itself is reprinted, complete, for copy No 402 of the privately printed limited edition of 1928.
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