Lady Chatterley's Lover

<b>SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING <i>THE CROWN</i>&#146;S EMMA CORRIN AND <i>UNBROKEN</i>&#146;S JACK O&#146;CONNELL<br><br>Introduction by Kathryn Harrison</b><br> &#160;<br> Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence&#146;s German wife and an Italian peasant <i>Lady Chatterley&#146;s Lover</i> follows the intense passions of Constance Chatterley. Trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocratic mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent Constance enters into a liaison with the gamekeeper Mellors. Frank Kermode called the book D. H. Lawrence&#146;s &#147;great achievement&#148; Ana&#239;s Nin described it as &#147;his best novel&#148; and Archibald MacLeish hailed it as &#147;one of the most important works of fiction of the century.&#148; Along with an incisive Introduction by Kathryn Harrison this Modern Library edition includes the transcript of the judge&#146;s decision in the famous 1959 obscenity trial that allowed <i>Lady Chatterley&#146;s Lover</i> to be published in the United States.