D. H Lawrence

Lady Chatterley?s Lover was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley?s marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralysed from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests that she have an affair. Constance, troubled by her husband?s words, finds herself involved...

Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values. This of course did not deter him. At his death in 1930 at the young age of 44 he was more often thought of as a pornographer but in the ensuing years he has come to be more rightly regarded as one of the most imaginative writers these shores have produced. As well as his novels he was also a masterful...