D.H. Lawrence finished "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in 1928, but it was not published in an uncensored version until 1960. Many contemporary critics of D.H. Lawrence viewed the Victorian love story as vulgar, and even pornographic. It was banned immediately upon publication in both the UK and the US. The obscenity trials which followed established legal precedents for literature which still endure. At the heart, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" is a story about the invisible bonds between lovers, companions, and husbands and wives. Against this backdrop, Lawrence also explores the relationship between physical desire and spiritual fulfillment, often using sensual and explicitly sexual language. This special edition of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" has been restored for a modern audience, including all previously censored material. Excerpt from "Lady Chatterley's Lover - Restored Modern Edition" Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved Supreme pleasure? she said, looking up at him. Is that sort of idiocy the supreme pleasure of the life of the mind? No, thank you Give me the body. I believe the life of the body is a greater reality than the life of the mind: when the body is really awakened to life. But so many people, like your famous wind-machine, have only got minds tacked on to their physical corpses. He looked at her in wonder. The life of the body, he said, is just the life of the animals. And thats better than the life of professional corpses. But its not true The human body is only just coming to real life. With the Greeks it gave a lovely flicker, then Plato and Aristotle killed it, and Jesus finished it off. But now the body is coming really to life, it is really rising from the tomb. And it will be a lovely, lovely life in the lovely universe, the life of the human body. -- Ch. 16, p. 281 He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood. But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was illusory. The industrial noises broke the solitude, the sharp lights, though unseen, mocked it. A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits. And now he had taken the woman, and brought on himself a new cycle of pain and doom. For he knew by experience what it meant. It was not womans fault, nor even loves fault, nor the fault of sex. The fault lay there, out there, in those evil electric lights and diabolical rattlings of engines. There, in the world of the mechanical greedy, greedy mechanism and mechanized greed, sparkling with lights and gushing hot metal and roaring with traffic, there lay the vast evil thing, ready to destroy whatever did not conform. Soon it would destroy the wood, and the bluebells would spring no more. All vulnerable things must perish under the rolling and running of iron. He thought with infinite tenderness of the woman. Poor forlorn thing, she was nicer than she knew, and oh so much too nice for the tough lot she was in contact with. Poor thing, she too had some of the vulnerability of the wild hyacinths, she wasnt all tough rubber-goods and platinum, like the modern girl. And they would do her in As sure as life, they would do her in, as they do in all naturally tender life. Tender Somewhere she was tender, tender with a tenderness of the growing hyacinths, something that has gone out of the celluloid women of today. But he would protect her with his heart for a little while. For a little while, before the insentient iron world and the Mammon of mechanized greed did them both in, her as well as him. -- Ch.10, p. 134

勞倫斯（1885-1930）是二十世紀英國最獨特和最有爭議的作傢之一。他生於諾丁漢一個礦工傢庭，二十一歲時入諾丁漢大學學習，一生中創作瞭四十餘部小說、詩歌、遊記等作品，《兒子與情人》被認為是其最好的小說。勞倫斯提倡人性自由發展，反對工業文明對自然的破壞。他的作品對傢庭、婚姻和性進行瞭深入探索，對20世紀的小說寫作産生瞭廣泛影響。她是英國詩人、小說傢、散文傢，曾在國內外漂泊十多年。他寫過詩，但主要寫長篇小說，共有 10 部，最著名的為《虹》（ 1915 ）、《愛戀中的女人》（ 1921 ）和《查特萊夫人的情人》（ 1928 ）。《查特萊夫人的情人》是勞倫斯的最後一部小說。勞倫斯相信，人類的性愛具有至高無上的價值，也許這個世界上沒有一個作傢能像他那樣，以宗教般的熱忱贊美人間性愛，以細膩微妙的筆觸描繪兩性關係中那種欲仙欲死的境界，而那伴隨著熾烈的性愛體驗的，是對曆史、政治、宗教、經濟等社會問題的嚴肅思考。由於小說毫不隱晦地描寫瞭性愛，因而被斥為淫穢作品，並遭查禁。1959年齣版此書的英國企鵝齣版社還被控犯有齣版淫穢作品罪，引起瞭轟動整個西方齣版界的官司。直到1960年10月倫敦中央刑事法院裁定齣版社無罪，小說纔得以解禁。《查特萊夫人的情人》雖然命運坎坷，但終以其嚴肅的寓意、社會批判的主題，真切透闢的寫實手法和細膩深刻的心理描寫成為名著，並對現當代英國乃至西方文學産生瞭重大影響。