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Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, Jill Daly ISBN: 1-882071-10-7 Publisher: Penton Overseas, Inc. Pub. Date: November, 1992 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (57 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not a book for Youngsters
Comment: Like many of us, I read this book in my late teens, but on a reread as an adult in my bookclub I realize the first time it probably went right over my head. Not because of the sex, which by today's standards is pretty tame, but for the astute observations on male and female behavior. I found Connie's ambivalence about her affair to be very believable--when with Mellors she's totally caught up in the moment, but away from him--even when pregnant with their child-- the real world intrudes and she feels ashamed. The description of the smart society of the 1920's and the casual sex was eerily modern. This book is about the conflict between nature and the industrial society, between pure sensuality and sex, between the intellectual life and the body. And parts of it are really funny!--the description of the meeting between Mellors and Connie's father is hysterical--the father is a complete buffoon. Lawrence has some odd ideas about sensuality and male power, and the brief, casual anti-Semitic throw away comments were disturbing, but all in all this was a great book.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Lady Chatterly's Lover" ranks with "Ulysses"
Comment: I did not read this book until ten years ago - age forty for those who count - and found it a brilliant work. It touched on every aspect of life in that era, using a difficult premise at the focus.
One reviewer called it 'sexist.' In that era, women were kept removed from the world, so men were the ones who made the initial contacts with reality and their sexuality. If Lawrence had written about that society in any other way, he would have been inaccurate. Lawrence shows the social conflict with both subtlety and brutality. Yet, Mellor IS a lover. There are sexual descriptions which are explicit, but within the coccoon of emotional bondings.
The way that Lawrence has essayed the class structure of England in that era is brave and accurate in all ways. He makes the posturing of the aristocracy both frivilous and full of assinine criteria at the same time he understands the willingness of those in power to offer their lives in the defense of the general welfare.
Lawrence notes again with unpleasant accuracy the detriments of an unchecked Industrial Revolution on the social structure of the time. He has Constance both witness these effects and suffer the olfactory damage.
This is a literary work which has an effect across the full spectrum of the possible. Finely drawn characters searching for a better way to survive their lives in a scenario that is rife with obstacles and unpleasantness. He has the touch of the finest artist working with the lightest gossamer and the blunt force of an ogre swinging a stone axe.
This was published in an abridged version because it was felt that the societal message it conveyed should be allowed to transit the draconian (by the less filtered standards of today) censorship of the era which DID focus on the sexual descriptions but could NOT stop the voice of social criticism any more than the same group could stop Dickens a few decades earlier.
Rating: 3
Summary: porn classic
Comment: Published in 1928, Lady Chatterley's Lover was D. H. Lawrence's last novel--it was also his most daring and blatantly erotic work. Even by today's standards, it's erotica, or "erotic romance." Like two of his previous novels, it was banned on publication, a ban which lasted until 1960. But an uncensored edition of the book was privately printed in Italy and copies were smuggled all over Europe and America.
The storyline is quite simple--a bored wife out in the country married to a rich, feeble, annoying husband in a wheelchair falls in love (and lust) with the robust and exciting gamekeeper employed by her husband. Sooner or later things are bound to go wrong, and this can't end happily.
This isn't Lawrence's best-written novel, but it is his most groundbreaking work, as it created decades of discussion and debate about what could/should and couldn't/shouldn't be published.
David Rehak
author of Love and Madness
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Title: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence ISBN: 0451525914 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence ISBN: 0451518829 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: January, 1985 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence, Keith Cushman ISBN: 0375759654 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Penguin Classics) by John Cleland, Peter Wagner ISBN: 0140432493 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1986 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, Karl Jay Shapiro, Anais Nin ISBN: 0802131786 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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