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Aasiyah Sidat (34 KP) rated Lady Chatterley's Lover in Books

Jul 5, 2018  
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence | 1983 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
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6.3 (6 Ratings)
Book Rating
So I chose Lady Chatterley's Lover by Mr D.H Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's lover was a book created by Lawrence created in 1928. He had the book published privately in Italy and France but boy did he kick up a fuss. The book was subsequently banned in the UK, Australia, Canada, the US and India. There were outcries of the lewd nature of the book, the frank talk about sex and intimacy and extra-marital affairs. In 1960, a trial was held in the UK and the book was released from its ban.

While reading this, I tried to understand why this book was considered so obscene. I mean we have 50 shades of grey which didn't have any fingers pointed at it and that book discusses more unique sex forms. This book discussed pure 'vanilla' sex between a man and a woman. So what was the issue?

Continue reading my review at: https://www.readsandrecipes.co.uk/2017/04/read-harder-banned-book.html