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Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780143039617
ISBN: 014303961X
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2006-10-31
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780143039617
ISBN: 014303961X
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2006-10-31
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
Editorial Review of Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters.
Customer Reviews of Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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Review Summary: This Book Ain't Bad for a Love Story
Review: I actually read the Barnes & Noble Classics Edition of this book. It may or may not be available from amazon. The B&N edition was $7, for what it's worth... You'll likely come across this review for the Penguin edition. And while normally I think Penguin books are junk, this Deluxe Classic Edition with its funny/interesting/weird comic book cover, may prove an exception to my dislike of Penguin books.
The Books itself, by DH Lawrence, I highly recomend. For this review I will begin with a brief description of the plot. I'll follow this up with a look into the books themes and ideas that it presents to the reader. Finally, I'll shoot straight and give you my own humble opinion of Lady Chatterly's Lover.
The book introduces Connie before she's become a Chatterly. She comes from the Nobel Class -- her Mother's side higher up than her Father (a filandering Scot). She has a Sister who may be a bit of a Lez. Connie had her first affair with a German boy. Before the War (WW1) she's engaged to a landowner in the Norther mining region of England, Lord Chatterly. He comes home from the war an impotent cripple. The Lord & Lady share a mutual affection, but soon they will grow bored with each other. Connies first affair is with an Irish playright. He doesn't quite make Connie cum, but she does a little work herself after he comes and she's able to get off. The Lover of Lady Chatterly is actually the groundskeeper Mellors. He hates people, hates society, and essentially lives as an isolate; even though he's an estranged wife and a daughter whom his mother takes care of. Eventually the two hook up. Mellors is able to make Connie cum. She gets pregnant. She goes away to Rome with her sister. She comes back and tells her husband she's pregnant, and asks him for a divorce, which he does not grant her. She runs away. Her husband crys and like a young boy he sucks on the tits of the house maid, who's a bit of milf we're told. Connie gets a letter from Mellors and in it he confesses his love for Connie. THE END
Mellors seems a lot like Lawrence. He looks like him. He hate's society; Fears industrialization; Enjoys a good F***. The books central theme seems to be about the loss of intimacy and love in an industrial society. That is, people have been turned into machines and have forgoten what made man great in the first place. Instead of love and acknowledgement of the beauty of sex, people indulge in money making and intellectual activities. ...If only one can find a girl he loves and who he enjoys a good romp in bed with, then everything will be ok. True enough, right?
I actually thought this book was really good. Lawrence writes solid prose that are both beautiful and readable. I like what he has to say about industrial society. He seems like a bit of a sex maniac, but this can be forgiven.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Masterpiece has Social Injustice Underplay Sexual Theme [48]
Review: D.H. Lawrence daringly wrote about sexual mores in this novel, to an extent that his socioeconomic theme may have been lost by many of the readers.
Constance Chatterly - affectionately depicted as Connie or Lady Chatterly - is the highlight and nightmare to her husband, Lord Chatterly. After a whirlwind marriage and honeymoon, the lord returns to Word War I's catastrophe and is "shipped home smashed." He is a paraplegic for life, and someone who cannot provide an heir to his family's estate: Wragby.
While confined to the walls of the stately mansion, she is effectively a widow who will never know her sexuality. But she is not alone as one friend tells her, "You have to snivel and feel sinful or awful about your sex, before you're allowed to have any." Sex is a suppressed sin - not an appreciated act.
Her lover concedes women are no fun. ". . . the mass of women are like this: most of them want a man, but don't want the sex, but they put up with it, as part of the bargain." In reflection, being married to a paraplegic may be a blessing to those very women.
But, her lover discovers fun with sex, and vice versa. They actually conjoin in orgasm. Lawrence writes about this, he writes about their propinquity of flesh, of cuddling and more. In return, England banned publication of this until 1960. Almost 32 years this book was shelved by the prurient aristocratic publishers who cringed when reading about the sex, and the details of the same.
But, Lawrence's statement is stronger. Lady Chatterly does not have sex with one of her class - no she opts for one of the servants of the manor. Oliver Mellors, a bloke who chooses to speak in Derby accent instead of proper English (which he is capable of doing) lights a flame to her inner hay stack. And, she goes wild.
Although married to be a Lady, Connie is not from such top-notch stock. But, she is still greater than a commoner, and her sister Hilda remarks about their tryst as ". . .how impossible it is to mix one's life with theirs. Not out of snobbery, but just because the whole rhythm is different."
Those people, the colliers or coal miners, are the people who work the colliery owned by Lord Chatterly. He effectively supplies income to every person's house - at least enough to keep them fed and housed, while they toil in the depths of his mines' bowels in disgusting filth and horrible conditions.
Lawrence saw his father in such mines, but saves us from learning too much of the daily toil - this is not a revelation of bad working conditions like Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." But, this is a statement about social injustice, like Sinclair's "The Jungle."
In the end, all good comes of a bad situation. The commoner is anything but common and Connie's daddy sits and drinks with this potential Gold Digger and leaves the pub slapping the man on the back and opening his heart and soul to the man who somehow managed to have his daughter leave the comforts and prestige of Magbry.
Scenes like that at the pub remind me that Lawrence obviously read Dickens - like probably all his peers did. And, his novel is comparably great as it hits the forefront of not only social injustice, but attacks Victorian restraints on sex, much like other great novelists of England - including Virginia Woolf. But, he attacked such social conservatism head on. This book is a leader of its time.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Why a comic-book cover?
Review: The use of comic strips lamely summarizing scenes from D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" came as an unwelcome surprise. The edition itself is excellent, with a fine introduction, authoritative text, maps, notes, and bibliography. But the cover (and a gratuitous list of women the author is alleged to have shagged) is more than disgraceful. What conceivable purpose does this serve? The marketing people at Penguin should think twice before defacing a classic text in this way.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: remote contact
Review: It's been a while since I've read anything this flowery, and yet, it was a pleasant deviation. This book wasn't shocking for its sexual contact, but it was a pleasant surprise. I wasn't expecting such a robust sprinkling of f*ck and c*nt, but there it was, interspersed with social class distinction and haughtiness turned into naughtiness. It has the allure and staying power of liberal sex scenes, but also is the lovely picture of a love affair that transcends social mores.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Wonderfully descriptive
Review: A wonderful read, that explores human relationships. It is wonderfully descriptive and a pleasure to read. Highly recommend.
Review Summary: This Book Ain't Bad for a Love Story
Review: I actually read the Barnes & Noble Classics Edition of this book. It may or may not be available from amazon. The B&N edition was $7, for what it's worth... You'll likely come across this review for the Penguin edition. And while normally I think Penguin books are junk, this Deluxe Classic Edition with its funny/interesting/weird comic book cover, may prove an exception to my dislike of Penguin books.
The Books itself, by DH Lawrence, I highly recomend. For this review I will begin with a brief description of the plot. I'll follow this up with a look into the books themes and ideas that it presents to the reader. Finally, I'll shoot straight and give you my own humble opinion of Lady Chatterly's Lover.
The book introduces Connie before she's become a Chatterly. She comes from the Nobel Class -- her Mother's side higher up than her Father (a filandering Scot). She has a Sister who may be a bit of a Lez. Connie had her first affair with a German boy. Before the War (WW1) she's engaged to a landowner in the Norther mining region of England, Lord Chatterly. He comes home from the war an impotent cripple. The Lord & Lady share a mutual affection, but soon they will grow bored with each other. Connies first affair is with an Irish playright. He doesn't quite make Connie cum, but she does a little work herself after he comes and she's able to get off. The Lover of Lady Chatterly is actually the groundskeeper Mellors. He hates people, hates society, and essentially lives as an isolate; even though he's an estranged wife and a daughter whom his mother takes care of. Eventually the two hook up. Mellors is able to make Connie cum. She gets pregnant. She goes away to Rome with her sister. She comes back and tells her husband she's pregnant, and asks him for a divorce, which he does not grant her. She runs away. Her husband crys and like a young boy he sucks on the tits of the house maid, who's a bit of milf we're told. Connie gets a letter from Mellors and in it he confesses his love for Connie. THE END
Mellors seems a lot like Lawrence. He looks like him. He hate's society; Fears industrialization; Enjoys a good F***. The books central theme seems to be about the loss of intimacy and love in an industrial society. That is, people have been turned into machines and have forgoten what made man great in the first place. Instead of love and acknowledgement of the beauty of sex, people indulge in money making and intellectual activities. ...If only one can find a girl he loves and who he enjoys a good romp in bed with, then everything will be ok. True enough, right?
I actually thought this book was really good. Lawrence writes solid prose that are both beautiful and readable. I like what he has to say about industrial society. He seems like a bit of a sex maniac, but this can be forgiven.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Masterpiece has Social Injustice Underplay Sexual Theme [48]
Review: D.H. Lawrence daringly wrote about sexual mores in this novel, to an extent that his socioeconomic theme may have been lost by many of the readers.
Constance Chatterly - affectionately depicted as Connie or Lady Chatterly - is the highlight and nightmare to her husband, Lord Chatterly. After a whirlwind marriage and honeymoon, the lord returns to Word War I's catastrophe and is "shipped home smashed." He is a paraplegic for life, and someone who cannot provide an heir to his family's estate: Wragby.
While confined to the walls of the stately mansion, she is effectively a widow who will never know her sexuality. But she is not alone as one friend tells her, "You have to snivel and feel sinful or awful about your sex, before you're allowed to have any." Sex is a suppressed sin - not an appreciated act.
Her lover concedes women are no fun. ". . . the mass of women are like this: most of them want a man, but don't want the sex, but they put up with it, as part of the bargain." In reflection, being married to a paraplegic may be a blessing to those very women.
But, her lover discovers fun with sex, and vice versa. They actually conjoin in orgasm. Lawrence writes about this, he writes about their propinquity of flesh, of cuddling and more. In return, England banned publication of this until 1960. Almost 32 years this book was shelved by the prurient aristocratic publishers who cringed when reading about the sex, and the details of the same.
But, Lawrence's statement is stronger. Lady Chatterly does not have sex with one of her class - no she opts for one of the servants of the manor. Oliver Mellors, a bloke who chooses to speak in Derby accent instead of proper English (which he is capable of doing) lights a flame to her inner hay stack. And, she goes wild.
Although married to be a Lady, Connie is not from such top-notch stock. But, she is still greater than a commoner, and her sister Hilda remarks about their tryst as ". . .how impossible it is to mix one's life with theirs. Not out of snobbery, but just because the whole rhythm is different."
Those people, the colliers or coal miners, are the people who work the colliery owned by Lord Chatterly. He effectively supplies income to every person's house - at least enough to keep them fed and housed, while they toil in the depths of his mines' bowels in disgusting filth and horrible conditions.
Lawrence saw his father in such mines, but saves us from learning too much of the daily toil - this is not a revelation of bad working conditions like Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." But, this is a statement about social injustice, like Sinclair's "The Jungle."
In the end, all good comes of a bad situation. The commoner is anything but common and Connie's daddy sits and drinks with this potential Gold Digger and leaves the pub slapping the man on the back and opening his heart and soul to the man who somehow managed to have his daughter leave the comforts and prestige of Magbry.
Scenes like that at the pub remind me that Lawrence obviously read Dickens - like probably all his peers did. And, his novel is comparably great as it hits the forefront of not only social injustice, but attacks Victorian restraints on sex, much like other great novelists of England - including Virginia Woolf. But, he attacked such social conservatism head on. This book is a leader of its time.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Why a comic-book cover?
Review: The use of comic strips lamely summarizing scenes from D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" came as an unwelcome surprise. The edition itself is excellent, with a fine introduction, authoritative text, maps, notes, and bibliography. But the cover (and a gratuitous list of women the author is alleged to have shagged) is more than disgraceful. What conceivable purpose does this serve? The marketing people at Penguin should think twice before defacing a classic text in this way.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: remote contact
Review: It's been a while since I've read anything this flowery, and yet, it was a pleasant deviation. This book wasn't shocking for its sexual contact, but it was a pleasant surprise. I wasn't expecting such a robust sprinkling of f*ck and c*nt, but there it was, interspersed with social class distinction and haughtiness turned into naughtiness. It has the allure and staying power of liberal sex scenes, but also is the lovely picture of a love affair that transcends social mores.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Wonderfully descriptive
Review: A wonderful read, that explores human relationships. It is wonderfully descriptive and a pleasure to read. Highly recommend.