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Lady Chatterley's Lover Audiobook
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Lady Chatterley's husband returns from the War paralysed from the waist down. Frustrated by his attitudes as much as his disability, she begins a love-affair with the gamekeeper, Mellors. She realises that to be fully alive she must live the life of the body as well as the mind, but in doing so she angers the conventions of her day. Banned for over 30 years for the explicit nature of its language and descriptions of sex, Lady Chatterley's Lover also exposes the dehumanisation of the mechanical age, and underlines the profound power of tenderness.
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— Ana (4 out of 5 stars)
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“No one ever wrote better about the power struggles of sex and love.”
— Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize–winning author -
“His best novel.”
— Anaïs Nin -
“Nobody concerned with the novel in our century can afford not to read it.”
— Lawrence Durrell, author of the Alexandria Quartet -
“It was a bomb, not a book.”
— Guardian (London)
Lady Chatterley's Lover Listener Reviews
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Jackie, 3/5/2016
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" I read this book because I have been trying to read some of the "classics" and also because it was a banned book and I wanted to see what the hype was about. For the time it was written it was definitely racy with lots of f*** and c*** words scattered throughout. There are plenty of sex scenes. Lawrence does look at the class issue and the difference between men and women in this book and makes you think about how things were and how far we have come, although some things really haven't changed. Parts of the book were utterly boring. I'm not sure I would recommend it to my friends. "
— Jen, 1/20/2014 -
" I now understand why this book was "revolutionary" for its time, it really discussed how sex and passion plays in the life of a woman quite liberally. The book was just okay for me, though. "
— M, 1/15/2014 -
" I might give this one two and a half stars. There were parts that I liked, and parts that annoyed me. I'm not sure that I can put into words my thoughts on this book. "
— Kim, 1/15/2014 -
" I think the hype around the story ruined this for me because I expected more and felt a bit disappointed. Having said that, I enjoyed the story and the excellent character descriptions. "
— Kat, 1/12/2014 -
" To good not to read.The laqdy of the house has an impotent husband.Has an affair with the gamekeeper.Banned when first written.Now mildly pornographic "
— Dave, 12/25/2013 -
" Read this with a book group on BarnesandNoble.com about 9 years ago. It was really good. It's interesting to see what was considered risque back then compared to today. "
— Jasmine, 12/21/2013 -
" Meh. I realize the historical importance of the novel but didn't find it all that exciting or interesting. "
— Katy, 11/18/2013 -
" Hmm, It was alright. Ending left you hanging though. "
— Joselyn, 11/8/2013 -
" So boring, especially for a book banned until the 1960s in some places. "
— Jana, 7/23/2013 -
" interesting senual metaphor on industrialization "
— Holli, 5/10/2013 -
" I stopped reading this book due to a lack of relevance. In a post-sexual-revolution world, this novel comes across as pandering, paternalistic, and generally distasteful. I'm sure it was groundbreaking in it's day, but I don't care to read it. "
— Anna, 2/3/2013 -
" Read many years ago, but a classic bit of titillation, though tame by modern standards :) "
— Leni, 9/6/2012
About D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) was a British writer of novels, poems, essays, short stories, and plays. Some of the books he wrote in the early 1900s became controversial because they contained direct descriptions of sexual relations. His best-known books are Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
About Margaret Hilton
Margaret Hilton is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.