Reprints the text of the 1959 American ed.

In this novel, D.H. Lawrence pioneered in fearlessly and frankly describing the act of love. He wrote of physical love with a total lack of inhibition or convention (even to the use of certain four-letter words) and he combined that with lyrical tenderness, joy, and exultation that became, at times, almost religious. He successfully conveyed what others at the time (1928) could only hint at--a white-hot radiance of sexual passion. Not only was this creative man a novelist and poet but he was also an artist, and the Greenwich House Classics Library is pleased to present in this special edition the controversial erotic paintings that Lawrence exhibited in London in 1929. . . . It is the story of Constance Chatterley, whose husband Clifford is paralyzed emotionally and physically, and of the growing romance between Lady Chatterley and her husband's gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors, with whom she finds love and sexual fulfillment and learns to reject the sterility, joylessness, and class consiousness of Clifford and his way of life.,adapted from jacket