Lady Chatterley's Lover

Constance Chatterley is married to a wealthy landowner who came back from the war paralysed. Lonely in his grand house, she finds something she has been missing with the gamekeeper of his estate, in a story of class, the body and tenderness that was banned for thirty years. By D. H. Lawrence (1928). A public-domain classic.

Content warnings: Sexual content · Strong language

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How it begins Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.This was more or less Constance Chatterley's position. The war had brought the roof down over her head. And she had realised that one must live and learn. Keep reading →

Chapters

1. 1Chapter I15 min · 9 Nov
2. 2Chapter II13 min · 9 Nov
3. 3Chapter III19 min · 9 Nov
4. 4Chapter IV18 min · 9 Nov
5. 5Chapter V26 min · 9 Nov
6. 6Chapter VI23 min · 9 Nov
7. 7Chapter VII26 min · 9 Nov
8. 8Chapter VIII21 min · 9 Nov
9. 9Chapter IX25 min · 9 Nov
10. 10Chapter X66 min · 9 Nov
11. 11Chapter XI32 min · 9 Nov
12. 12Chapter XII23 min · 9 Nov
13. 13Chapter XIII28 min · 9 Nov
14. 14Chapter XIV31 min · 9 Nov
15. 15Chapter XV28 min · 9 Nov
16. 16Chapter XVI37 min · 9 Nov
17. 17Chapter XVII35 min · 9 Nov
18. 18Chapter XVIII27 min · 9 Nov
19. 19Chapter XIX26 min · 9 Nov

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