Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lawrence's most famous novel concerns Constance (Lady) Chatterley, a young woman whose husband has been paralysed from the waist down. Sexually frustrated, Constance enters into an affair with gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. The novel's explicit descriptions of sex have made it one of the most controversial books ever published. It wasn't until 1960, in fact, that a fully unexpurgated edition was released in Britain. Its publisher was prosecuted for obscenity, though acquitted the same year.Sayre St ...