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Lady Chatterley's Lover

内容简介

Withitsfour-letterwordsanditsexplicitdescriptionsofsexualintercourse,LadyChatterleysLoveristhenovelwithwhichD.H.Lawrenceismostoftenassociated.FirstpublishedprivatelyinFlorencein1928,itonlybecameaworld-widebest-sellerafterPenguinBookshadsuccessfullyresistedanattemptbytheBritishDirectorofPublicProsecutionstopreventthemofferinganunexpurgatededitiontothegeneralpublic.ThefamoustrialofLadyChatterleyheraldedthesexualrevolutionofthecomingdecadesandsignalledthedefeatofEstablishmentprudery.YetLawrencehimselfwashardlyaliberationistandtheconservativismofmanyaspectsofhisnovelwouldlaterlayitopentoattacksfromthepoliticalavant-gardeandfromfeminists.ThestoryofhowthewifeofSirCliffordChatterleyrespondswhenherhusbandreturnsfromthewarparalysedfromthewaistdown,andofthetenderlovewhichthendevelopsbetweenherandherhusbandsgamekeeper,isacomplexoneopentoavarietyofconflictinginterpretations.Thiseditionofthenoveloffersanoccasionforanewgenerationofreaderstodiscoverwhatallthefusswasabout;toappraiseLawrencesbitterindictmentofmodernindustrialsociety,andtoaskthemselveswhatlessonstheremightbeforthe21stcenturyinhisintenseexplorationofthecomplicatedrelationsbetweenloveandsex.

作者简介

D.H.Lawrencehadunconventionalopinions,especiallyaboutsexuality,andatthetimeofhisdeathhewasthoughtofmainlyasapornographerwhohadwastedhisconsiderabletalents.ButE.M.Forster,inanobituarynotice,describedhimas""thegreatestimaginativenovelistofourgeneration.""Latercriticsconcurred,andLawrenceisnowrememberedasanimportantmodernistintellectual.--ThistextreferstoanalternatePaperbackedition.

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