Seems like an anticonservative book. It contradictates everything about marriage traditions, pure capitalism, romantic ilusions... Appreciated it for it.
When I first started to read "Lady Chatterley's Lover" I was reminded of Flaubert's classic tale of the unsatisfied Madame Bovary, as both novels seemed to examine the women's hungry need for something more than the provincial and trivial rituals their marriages provided them with. However the novel...
Here's what I think happens with this book: I think people think it's Victorian. The title sounds Victorian, right? And it's about...I think we call them the landed gentry*? and their dissolution, which is a major theme of the late Victorians. Lawrence even puts sort of a Victorian feel into his wri...
Love, love, loved it! It's an amazing example of society, of human deffects and qualities.. It's one of the books you should never miss in a lifetime!
This wasn't quite what I expected. It is certainly difficult to see what made it quite so controversial when first published; the sex is by no means explicit and is dealt with briefly. Maybe the fact the lady of the house had an affair with the gamekeeper worried the solid men who argued against it....
Misogynist. This should be removed as a "classic" and demoted to the dustbin of eternity.
It's not pornography by a long shot. Best used as an antidote to anyone's nostalgia for a simpler time. I had quite a thing for Lawrence in high school and college, at least in part because he had been scandalous.
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