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Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence

The story follows Constance Chatterley, an upper-class woman trapped in a passionless marriage to her paralyzed husband, who begins an affair with Mellors, the estate's working-class gamekeeper.

"Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D. H. Lawrence is a novel. The story follows Constance Chatterley, an upper-class woman trapped in a passionless marriage to her paralyzed husband, who begins an affair with Mellors, the estate's working-class gamekeeper.

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

This was more or less Constance Chatterley's position. The war had brought the roof down over her head. And she had realised that one must live and learn.

She married Clifford Chatterley in 1917, when he was home for a month on leave. They had a month's honeymoon. Then he went back to Flanders: to be shipped over to England again six months later, more or less in bits. Constance, his wife, was then twenty-three years old, and he was twenty-nine.

His hold on life was marvellous. He didn't die, and the bits seemed to grow together again. For two years he remained in the doctor's hands. Then he was pronounced a cure, and could return to life again, with the lower half of his body, from the hips down, paralysed for ever.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I
  2. 02Chapter II
  3. 03Chapter III
  4. 04Chapter IV
  5. 05Chapter V
  6. 06Chapter VI
  7. 07Chapter VII
  8. 08Chapter VIII
  9. 09Chapter IX
  10. 10Chapter X
  11. 11Chapter XI
  12. 12Chapter XII
  13. 13Chapter XIII
  14. 14Chapter XIV
  15. 15Chapter XV
  16. 16Chapter XVI
  17. 17Chapter XVII
  18. 18Chapter XVIII
  19. 19Chapter XIX

About this edition

Author
D. H. Lawrence
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
359 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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