Name: The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Brand: Daunt Books
SKU: 9781907970979
Price: 79.00 HKD
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Author: Sybille Bedford
ISBN: 9781907970979

The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover

By Sybille Bedford

Daunt Books October 2016

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781907970979
Publisher: Daunt Books
Publication: October 2016
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

With a new introduction by Thomas Grant, author of Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories

When Penguin released a new, unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960, they were charged with the crime of publishing obscene material and made to defend the book's literary merit in court. Thus began one of the most famous trials of the 20th century.

There to take it all in was Sybille Bedford. With her trademark wit and flair, she presents us with a play-by-play of the trial: from the prosecution's questioning of the novel's thirteen unvarying sex scenes and 66 swear words, to the dozens of witnesses who testified including the Bishop of Woolwich and E. M. Forster.

Bedford gives us a timeless and dramatic account that captures one of the most fascinating and absurd moments in both legal and publishing history, when attitudes and morals shifted forever.