Summary
David Herbert Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover
The novel describes the love of squire Oliver Mellors and Baroness Constance Chatterley. The action takes place after the First World War.
Constance's husband Clifford is crippled, paralyzed and impotent. He is a veteran of the First World War. Constance is deeply unhappy and unfulfilled in her marriage. Through the relationship with Mellors, he returns to life, gets to know his own sexuality and finds a way to personal freedom.
Lawrence also describes life in the province, as well as the special characters who live there, the most interesting of which is Ivy Bolton, the maid who takes care of Clifford. Among the characters are Hilda, Constance's sister, her father and many others.
The novel ends with the two main characters waiting for a divorce from their current spouses, waiting for a joint child, but separated from each other.
It is a work of great artistic strength, with notes of humor and irony, deep insights about life and human destiny, but also explicit descriptions of sexual relations.
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