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  • Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • Written by: D. H. Lawrence
  • Narrated by: Samantha Bond
  • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

Written by: D. H. Lawrence
Narrated by: Samantha Bond
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Publisher's Summary

The story of Lady Chatterley and her love for her husband's gamekeeper outraged the sensibilities of Edwardian England. Lawrence had already been dismissed as a purveyor of the obscene for the attitudes to sex that he had shown in The Rainbow, which had been fiercely suppressed on its publication in 1915. Chatterley, written in several versions around 1928 in Italy in the final part of Lawrence's life, was a deliberate choice on the author's part to address sex head on, describe the act and its pleasures in detail and put forward his belief that mankind had lost touch with its pagan and natural roots, its link to the earth and therefore its strength.

Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned from publication in Britain until 1960, when the radical new publishing house Penguin Books brought out a paperback edition and was immediately taken to court for obscenity. The trial that followed became one of the marking posts for the '60s' 'revolution', with arguments for the beauty of Lawrence's descriptions of love and sex finally conquering the prudish sensibilities that Lawrence so despised and leading to a landmark legal ruling in Penguin's favour. For all the campaigning and crusading that has accompanied Lady Chatterley's Lover, it remains in essence a beautiful description of a true and lasting passion.

Public Domain (P)2007 Silksoundbooks Limited

Editorial Review

One of the most controversial and widely challenged novels of all time, D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover took the United Kingdom by storm in the 20th century for its frank portrayal of sex and passion. Shortly after its initial publication in 1928, the novel was banned in England and the United States for its detailed erotic portrayal of adult relationships.

Set in the 1920s, Lady Chatterley’s Lover centres on Constance Chatterley, a young woman trapped in a sexless marriage. After her husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, is seriously wounded during a battle in World War I, he is paralyzed from the waist down, confined to a wheelchair and left impotent. Unable to satisfy his wife sexually, Clifford pulls away emotionally and encourages Constance to liaise with a man of their class. Hurt and desperate for affection, Constance finds herself attracted to a man who is far from a genteel aristocrat—her husband’s gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Oliver is gruff, brooding and sensual, and Constance has urges that need to be fulfilled. What follows is a tumultuous affair that could destroy their lives—and a love so strong they’re willing to risk everything for it.

Accomplished narrator Samantha Bond voices Constance’s frustrations, fears and powerful desires in the audiobook. Listen here on Audible before you watch— Lady Chatterley’s Lover is now a motion picture on Netflix, starring Emma Corrin.

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Great Story, Good Narrator, Poor Audio Editing

Poor editing, we hear the narrator clear her throat, swallow and cough several times.

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good, but those swallowing noises

Lovely narration, but I did not enjoy hearing her swallowing.
Story was too explicit for my taste, my own fault for picking a book with 'lover' in the title. good characterizations, really brought the post war apathy of northern England to life.

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Pretty solid

Samantha bond did an amazing job reading this novel she does a great job with all the voices and different accents. The novel was wonderfully written and even if the book is a bit dated I chuckled through a lot of it but maybe it’s only because I’m childish. The ending wrapped rather quickly and it wasn’t what I expected so overall pretty anti climatic although the book carried a lot interesting ideas on the state of the industrial world and how humanity behaves and works.

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