Lady Chatterley Lover David Herbert Lawrence Books
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Lady Chatterley's Lover By David Herbert Lawrence
Lady Chatterley Lover David Herbert Lawrence Books
I was barely an adolescent when Lady Chatterley’s Lover was finally allowed to be published in the United States. It was allegedly a “dirty” book. I remember a paperback copy being furtively passed around in my middle school English class along with a whispered “page 258.” Then you would hear a gasp from whoever was reading the notorious page 258 before passing it on for the next person to gasp over. Lo, all these decades later, I’m at last reading it for real. It’s a good book. It’s about sex, but it’s also about a lot more than sex. Set in Midlands England after World War I, the novel tells the story of Lady Constance Chatterley, who is married to young Sir Clifford Chatterley, newly come home from the war dead from the waist down. He is confined to a wheelchair and he is sexually impotent. Clifford and Constance have a strong mental rapport and a loving, albeit sexless relationship. Clifford one day tells her that he wouldn’t mind if she had a child, so long as she doesn’t tell him who the father is. He wants an heir; no one has to know that his heir is not his biological offspring. At first, she is disbelieving, but gradually the idea takes hold of her. Enter Sir Clifford’s gamekeeper, a man embittered by his lack of chances in this world despite superior service in India, a hard-working attitude, and innate intellectual gifts. One day Constance accidentally catches him bathing himself and is aroused on many levels by his presence. And thus begins a very passionate love affair that thwarts all the well-made plans of everyone.England in the early Twentieth Century was already an empire in decline and the decline was only to accelerate. In Sir Clifford, the impotent intellectual in a wheelchair, Lawrence finds the perfect metaphor for the nation’s psyche. Most of his ancient woods have been converted to factories and mines and housing developments. But he vows to hold on and revive his now depleted woods. Mellors, the newly-hired gamekeeper, is full of brooding sexuality, restless and dissatisfied as he tries to accept his lowly place in the world after the war. All the characters are prisoners of the horrid caste system, especially the headstrong and vibrant young woman. I found this a powerful novel that asks big questions. It’s fairly short and I read it fairly quickly. I found it thoroughly enjoyable and provocative on many levels. Four Stars.
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Lady Chatterley Lover David Herbert Lawrence Books Reviews
I have always found Lawrence boring yet something in his books attracts me. As a young student, I had read him just to pass exams but 38 years later, I can understand him better and from a new perspective. Lady Chatterley’s Lover was on my list ever since I had heard in my literature class that it was banned immediately after it was published.
I picked up this novel precisely to comprehend what could have evoked its ban and keeping in view the era in which it was written, I can say that the thoughts and ideas were path breaking and therefore could not be accepted by the conservative society. What this novel brings to my mind is how ahead of his times was Lawrence, how bold and fair as his women always aspire to be free and independent.
It is much more than just the sexual exploits of Lady Chatterley, who stands out because she dares to find her true self in a society, which would have fettered a woman who thinks about herself. It is as Constance that she finds her own joys despite the struggles within. It is as Connie – a free-spirited woman that her character shines and she could stand up against her highly respected, self-obsessed, invalid husband who could only think of himself and his reputation.
Besides evoking a lot of emotions, Lawrence has said a lot through this book, without actually using the words –inequality and discrimination. Why afraid, asks Connie… “It’s the money, really and the position. It’s the world in you,” says Mellors, a fictional character yet very close to realities of life!
Yet this novel doesn’t just glorify women, it talks about them in another tone too “A woman’s ghastly freedom that ends in the most beastly bullying. Oh she always kept her freedom against me, like vitriol in my face” says Mellors.
If you try to read this novel in a hurry as modern novels are read, you may not like it for it needs to be read slowly in order to savor the tone and tenor of this classic.
Balroop Singh
I finally read "Lady Chatterly's Lover". I'd heard about it for many years, but what I heard made me think it was just a sex book, written back in the time when that kind of thing was utterly scandalous, which is what made it famous (or infamous, if you prefer), and that's why it has lasted as long as it has. I was wrong. There's a lot more to the book than just sex. There is sex, yes, but the vivid descriptions don't come until quite a ways into the book.
At first the book seems to be about depression. The characters have a rather depressing view of life, and of relationships, and the language of the book, the words on the page, the vibe of the book, is dry. You wonder that a whole book of it can have been written and somehow become a classic. As it goes on, you see it's not just about depression, but also the different classes; the working man and the aristocrats. A lot of time is taken on that aspect, all through the book.
Then Lady Chatterly finds herself beginning a relationship with someone other than her husband (who returned from the war paralyzed from the waist down) and the whole feel of the book changes. As she opens up, like a flower in the morning to the warmth and light of the sun, the vibe becomes less and less dry, less depressing. The outlook of the characters on relationships, on feelings between people, both physical and mental, change in big ways. Life becomes something to reach for.
It's not an easy read, as the language doesn't flow freely, but it's quite worth reading. This book deserves its classic status.
As far as the e-book version I read (Lady Chatterly's Lover - The Unexpurgated Edition), all throughout the book there were grammar errors, misspellings, and symbols placed amid letters so that you couldn't tell what some words were supposed to be. Such as "of four" instead of "off our". It made for a bit of a slower read, but looking past that, a worthy one.
I was barely an adolescent when Lady Chatterley’s Lover was finally allowed to be published in the United States. It was allegedly a “dirty” book. I remember a paperback copy being furtively passed around in my middle school English class along with a whispered “page 258.” Then you would hear a gasp from whoever was reading the notorious page 258 before passing it on for the next person to gasp over. Lo, all these decades later, I’m at last reading it for real. It’s a good book. It’s about sex, but it’s also about a lot more than sex. Set in Midlands England after World War I, the novel tells the story of Lady Constance Chatterley, who is married to young Sir Clifford Chatterley, newly come home from the war dead from the waist down. He is confined to a wheelchair and he is sexually impotent. Clifford and Constance have a strong mental rapport and a loving, albeit sexless relationship. Clifford one day tells her that he wouldn’t mind if she had a child, so long as she doesn’t tell him who the father is. He wants an heir; no one has to know that his heir is not his biological offspring. At first, she is disbelieving, but gradually the idea takes hold of her. Enter Sir Clifford’s gamekeeper, a man embittered by his lack of chances in this world despite superior service in India, a hard-working attitude, and innate intellectual gifts. One day Constance accidentally catches him bathing himself and is aroused on many levels by his presence. And thus begins a very passionate love affair that thwarts all the well-made plans of everyone.
England in the early Twentieth Century was already an empire in decline and the decline was only to accelerate. In Sir Clifford, the impotent intellectual in a wheelchair, Lawrence finds the perfect metaphor for the nation’s psyche. Most of his ancient woods have been converted to factories and mines and housing developments. But he vows to hold on and revive his now depleted woods. Mellors, the newly-hired gamekeeper, is full of brooding sexuality, restless and dissatisfied as he tries to accept his lowly place in the world after the war. All the characters are prisoners of the horrid caste system, especially the headstrong and vibrant young woman. I found this a powerful novel that asks big questions. It’s fairly short and I read it fairly quickly. I found it thoroughly enjoyable and provocative on many levels. Four Stars.
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