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Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D.H. Lawrence

Fiction e-Book-of-the-Month, June 2000.
Available as an e-book edition in Qvadis Express Reader format, or for your personal library in a paper edition from Amazon.com.

JOYOUSLY SENSUAL, D.H. Lawrence's final and most famous novel brims with erotic passion and tenderness, exploring the sensitivities of a woman trapped in an emotionally and physically crippled marriage, who rediscovers love and intimacy with a laborer on her husband's estate. Completed in 1928, the novel's explicit language and descriptive scenes of lovemaking kept it from widespread publication until 1959, and even then it became the subject of a landmark obscenity trial. Today, the work stands apart from the scandal that made it famous; but the passion and lyricism of its voice is still vibrant, immediate, a celebration of sexual love, and a triumphant affirmation of life.

An excerpt:
"He thought with infinite tenderness of the woman. Poor forlorn thing, she was nicer than she knew, and oh! so much too nice for the tough lot she was in contact with. Poor thing, she too had some of the vulnerability of the wild hyacinths...

"And they would do her in! As sure as life, they would do her in, as they do in all naturally tender life. Tender! Somewhere she was tender, tender with a tenderness of the growing hyacinths, something that has gone out of the celluloid women of today. But he would protect her with his heart for a little while. For a little while, before the insentient iron world and the Mammon of mechanized greed did them both in, her as well as him."

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