About the Book: Lady Chatterleys Lover (wordsworth Classics)
Notes and Introduction by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With
its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady
Chatterleys Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often
associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a
world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt
by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an
unexpurgated edition. The famous Lady Chatterley trial heralded the sexual
revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment
prudery. Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the