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Connie s unhappy marriage to Clifford Chatterley is one scarred by mutual frustration and alienation. Crippled from wartime action, Clifford is confined to a wheelchair, while Connie s solitary, sterile existence is contained within the narrow parameters of the Chatterley ancestral home, Wragby. She seizes her chance at happiness and freedom when she embarks on a passionate affair with the estate s gamekeeper, Mellors, discovering a world of sexual opportunity and pleasure she d thought lost to her. The explosive passion of Connie and Mellors relationship - and the searing candour with which it is described - marked a watershed in twentieth century fiction, garnering Lady Chatterley s Lover a wide and enduring readership and lasting notoriety. The text is taken from the privately published Author s Unabridged Popular Edition of 1930, the last to be supervised in Lawrence s lifetime. It also includes his witty essay, My Skirmish with Jolly Roger, describing the pirating of this infamous novel.This Macmillan Collector s Library edition of Lady Chatterley s Lover features an afterword by Anna South.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector s Library are books to love and treasure.
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